Shot on Super 8mm film, Alana Hunt’s short film Surveilling a Crime Scene examines the materialisation of non-Indigenous life on Miriwoong Country—through the town of Kununurra and its surrounds, in the remote north-west of current day Australia.

The film aligns and overlays what may otherwise seem like discontinuous domains—a dam, tourism, a historical monument, agriculture, a police station, cigarette burns, bureaucratic forms—to produce a silhouette of tools, techniques, and procedures of power and oppression. Surveilling a Crime Scene delivers a gentle yet powerful tapestry of evidence that recognises colonisation not as history but as a continuous and present violence, one that is deceptively ordinary.

Supported by the Copyright Agency’s Cultural Fund and Sheila Foundation’s Michela and Adrian Fini Fellowship Surveilling a Crime Scene was awarded Best Short Documentary at the Sharjah Film Platform 2024.

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