Profession-wise, the previous decade has been sort to Australian filmmaker Warwick Thornton. It began again in 2009, when he received the Cannes Movie Competition’s Digital camera d’Or — the award for finest first function — for the incredible Samson and Delilah. Since then, he has explored ghost tales in The Darkish Facet, and opened the Sydney Movie Competition with We Do not Want a Map, a documentary exploring the prominence of the Southern Cross in Australian tradition. In 2017, he additionally directed probably the greatest, most blistering Australian westerns ever made, Candy Nation. And, extra just lately, he co-helmed the second six-part season of TV collection Thriller Street — which premiered at this 12 months’s Berlin Movie Competition earlier than hitting screens Down Underneath.
All that hustle and bustle has had an impression, nevertheless, as his subsequent challenge explores. In The Seashore, Thornton paperwork his personal quest to step again from his busy life by dwelling alone on an remoted stretch of sand by the shoreline — at Jilirr, on the Dampier Peninsula on the northwest coast of Western Australia.
Thornton directs the exquisite-looking documentary, together with his son — Robbie Hood and Finke: There and Again filmmaker Dylan River — capturing the whole collection. In addition to helming, Thornton clearly stars within the six-part collection, too. And it is understandably a extremely private affair; “The Seashore is among the most vital initiatives of my life. It is about my life. It’s my life,” the acclaimed director explains.
Accordingly, when the documentary hits NITV, SBS and SBS On Demand on Friday, Could 29 — airing on NITV and SBS concurrently in a single massive block, and dropping on the broadcaster’s streaming platform on the similar time — it’s going to chronicle Thornton’s efforts as he lives alone, endeavouring to comply with within the footsteps of his ancestors, the Kaytetye individuals. Solely relying upon the land, he spends his days in scenic environment whereas searching and gathering for meals, with the docuseries observing unobtrusively as he makes an attempt to remodel his existence, hook up with Nation, and nourish each his physique and spirit.
Because the just-released trailer exhibits, it makes for fairly the placing viewing. And, given the present state of the world, immensely well timed viewing too.
Take a look at the trailer under:
All six episodes of The Seashore will air on NITV and SBS on Friday, Could 29, with the docuseries obtainable to stream by way of SBS On Demand from the identical time.
Printed on Could 02, 2020 by
Sarah Ward
