Directed by:
Elizabeth PovinelliScreenplay:
Elizabeth PovinelliCinematography:
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In the not far future, Europeans can no longer survive for long periods outdoors in a land and seascape poisoned by capitalism, but Indigenous people seem able to. A young Indigenous man, Aiden, taken away when he was just a baby to be a part of a medical experiment to save the white race, is released into the world of his family. As he travels with his father and brother across the landscape he confronts two possible futures and pasts. (ScreenAustralia)
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The Mermaids is an artsy emotion-based movie with a dense atmosphere that pulls you in. With its details, scenes fading into one another, intense tableaus, a bunch of ingenious people looking for food and shelter in dry prairie and mud, the film is a critique of colonialism through the hopeless wandering of Aboriginal Australian people. [Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane]
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