Chris Knowles and Maggie Fooke, One View (1985)
“Colonisation of the landscape has perhaps been afforded its widest expression (and reached its widest audience) in the area of filmmaking,” the Larrakia artist, curator, and anthropologist Gary Lee claimed in his 1997 essay, titled lying about the landscape.
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