About

In his hypnotic and scorching masterpiece Walkabout Nicolas Roeg transposes the ‘Hansel and Gretel’ theme of child abandonment to the outback, highlighting colonial anxieties about the Australian landscape, and the cruelty of Indigenous dispossession under the settler state. Following two children (Jenny Agutter and Luc Roeg) who are abandoned by their father in the desert and are helped by an Indigenous youth (David Gulpilil) on his initiatory walkabout, the film’s provocative beauty and horror still prompts meditation on the injustices of contemporary Australian society today.

Walkabout will screen from an archival 35mm print.

M | Moderate suicide themes, Moderate nudity, Moderate coarse language