From Walkabout (1970) to Wolf Creek (2005), Picnic at Hanging Rock (1975) to Priscilla (1994), the Australian outback has fired the imagination of filmmakers and by turns entranced, awed, unsettled and terrified audiences.

'All of these films draw their considerable power from the Australian outback – on screen, as in life, a place for endless dreaming, living and working; of unnameable fears, of romance and getting lost.’

NFSA Historian Graham Shirley writes about The Outback on Screen for ASO and the Cinematheque Quarterly of the National Museum of Singapore. This week he also presented 'Outback on Screen: Physical Space / State of Mind’ and a screening of Sunday Too Far Away (1975) for the National Museum of Singapore and the Australian High Commission Singapore.

See all titles on ASO tagged outback.