Image: Responding to real life Fight Club, Tiyan Baker’s Hard as You Can is one of the Prototype films. Image supplied.
We talk these days about the ‘Australian screen industry’, not just because it’s a handy phrase to encompass film, TV and all the other kinds of screens, but because the logic of industry is so dominant that it seems quaintly utopian to speak too seriously of ‘screen culture’ or even to speak of cinema as an art form. But critic and curator Lauren Carroll Harris is unapologetically utopian, insisting that if there isn’t a space for art in the Australian screen landscape, then we need to create it and nurture the audiences who watch it.
