A video installation I made as part of the Graduate Certificate in Visual Art at the Victorian College of the Arts, Melbourne, Australia. I am fascinated with the way Australian stories are told on the big screen – and how largely absent I feel from these portrayals. My view of Australia is that of a beautiful, intricate, incredibly splintered, largely underrepresented mass of outlooks, cultures and opinions. As a nation, I believe that we lack a sense of national identity – which may actually be the thing I love most about Australia. It’s difficult to tell all our stories cohesively, because they are so incredibly varied. Irrespective of how well represented I or other Australians might feel on the big screen, the “Australian Film” exists out in the world, with or without us, characterised by its own peculiar visual language. My aim here was to show that this language is powerful enough to survive without characters or narrative – that our stylised on-screen national identity is embedded in the ambient elements of our films. I thus wanted to bring light to the disparity between the Australian stories that exist in the world of cinema, stylised, ambient, easily digested, and the untold Australian stories that happen off-screen, stories that are complex, disjointed and sometimes difficult to swallow.