Displacement and Replacement

Displacement and Replacement

Alana Hunt

Australia

2025

73mins

Revelation has carved out a reputation as Australia's home of experimental and independent screen culture having presented hundreds of such works since its inception 29 years ago. We especially love to champion local works whether they be gallery-based installations, projections, short works or in this case, experimental features which come to us all to infrequently.

In this accumulating remix of 12 films (commissioned by the state of Western Australia in the 1960s and 70s) in 12 chapters phrases from the film’s original narration have been pulled on to highlight the ideological and material violence of the colonial project — unfolding through the banality of things like roads, railways, mines, agriculture, farming and the weaponisation of things we commonly hold dear, like “community” and “home”.

This is a history of Western Australia we all know, but have never seen before.

A really great achievement.