THE DARKSIDE

“In cinema you’ve got your epics, your science fiction, you’ve got dramas, like Samson & Delilah, but I’ve always been interested in the thriller (…) it’s the kind of place I’d love to go. And Aboriginal people have got an amazing sort of oral history of ghost stories, and even though we live in this country, and we have an incredible knowledge of this country, we’re just as scared as everybody else of this country — I mean scared of ghosts and that.” After assembling a huge collection of such Aboriginal stories, Warwick Thornton brings these disturbing experiences to life in thirteen tableaux, where reality is doubly contaminated by fiction and the supernatural.