Mad Max – tracking climate change through Australian films

What can we learn about the state of our environment through films made in Australia? Quite a lot, according to the new Seeing Green podcast.

This article was co-written by Associate Professor Belinda Smaill of Monash University and film scholar and PhD candidate Melanie Ashe.

That world, and others presented in Australian film, is the focus of Seeing Green, a new podcast hosted by Triple R host Dylan Bird that we are both involved in producing. So far, there have been episodes on Wake in Fright (1971), Storm Boy (1976) and Rogue (2007) as well as the George Miller’s Dystopian franchise.

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Dr Belinda Smaill is Professor of Film and Screen Studies at Monash University. She has been writing about Australian documentary for more than two decades. Recently her work has focused on the ethical, cultural and institutional issues that shape the representation of the environment and biodiversity. She is the author of The Documentary: Politics, Emotion, Culture and Regarding Life: Animals and the Documentary Moving Image.