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Jay Swan, a detective, returns home to an outback town to solve the murder of a teenage Indigenous girl, whose body is found near a trucking route out of town.
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Prequel to Goldstone.
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Animals in Quarantine : Biosecurity Vs. Biodiversity
2022
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criticism
— Appears in: ANQ , vol. 35 no. 4 2022; (p. 388-397)'There are important connections between human and nonhuman animals in quarantine that have implications for biosecurity laws and the loss of biodiversity in Australia. The laws typically function as thinly disguised quarantine legislation and are wide-sweeping, manifestly averse to biodiversity, and mostly supportive of the primary animal agriculture industries of cattle and sheep farming. The undeclared and evident hostility to biodiversity that the laws represent is increasing, not reducing the risk of pandemics. Zoonosis, or the transfer of a disease from a nonhuman to human animal, triggers pandemics, and diseased animals are rife in animal agriculture, in other areas of food production where nonhuman animals are trafficked, and in rural and other outback environments where animal agriculture interests are eroding or deeply compromising biodiversity. Reducing the phenomenon of humans in quarantine means questioning animal agriculture and the biosecurity laws that support it. This kind of questioning appears in aesthetic responses to animal agriculture and the ecophobic, speciesist, and anthropocentric contours of that agriculture. The crime thriller film Mystery Road, directed by First Nations Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen, represents that questioning. Subtly but powerfully, the film castigates animal agriculture’s targeting of wild dog and other wild animal populations for eradication and cows and sheep and other industrially farmed animals for reduction to lumps of meat. This targeting foments antagonisms between biosecurity and biodiversity, legitimizes the practices of quarantining many animals for much of their lives, and paves the way for humans serving time in quarantine.' (Publication abstract)
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Jay Swan Is Back : Series Return Reflects Growing Energy and Enthusiasm for Black Storytelling
2020
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 April no. 723 2020; (p. 9-11) 'Director Warwick Thornton believes there's no secret as to why audiences love Mystery Road, the TV series starring Aaron Pederson as Detective Jay Swan.' -
Mystery of What to Watch Is Now Solved
2020
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— Appears in: Koori Mail , 8 April no. 723 2020; (p. 1) -
An Open Letter to Jay Swan
2020
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— Appears in: TEXT : The Journal of the Australian Association of Writing Programs , October vol. 24 no. 2 2020; -
Hero or Dupe : Jay Swan and the Ambivalences of Aboriginal Masculinity in the Films of Ivan Sen
2020
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criticism
— Appears in: Cinematic Settlers : The Settler Colonial World in Film 2020; (p. 115-126)
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Outback Western Takes Slow Road to Festival Opening Night
2013
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 June 2013; (p. 20)
— Review of Mystery Road 2013 single work film/TV -
Weaving His Way Through Mystery
2013
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 12 October 2013; (p. 14)
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Mystery Road : A Visual, Haunting Experience in a World in Desperate Need of Justice
2013
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— Appears in: National Indigenous Times , 9 October vol. 12 no. 332 2013; (p. 17)
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A Sinister Landscape
2013
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 12 October 2013; (p. 14)
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Fine Outback Western Takes Satisfying Turns
2013
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 13 October 2013; (p. 8) The Sunday Age , 13 October 2013; (p. 15)
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Promising Excursion along Mystery Road
2012
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— Appears in: The Australian , 27 June 2012; (p. 15) -
Winton Impresses as Setting for Matilda Movie
2012
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 19 July 2012; (p. 16) -
State's Other Sen-sational Film Director
2012
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— Appears in: The Courier-Mail , 17 December 2012; (p. 44) -
Real-Life Killings Collide with Weaving's Reel Life
2013
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— Appears in: The Sun-Herald , 12 May 2013; (p. 12) -
A Mystery Marketer at Film Festival
2013
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— Appears in: The Sydney Morning Herald , 7 June 2013; (p. 18)
Awards
- 2014 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Screenplay
- 2014 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Director
- 2014 winner AFCA Film Awards — Best Film
- 2014 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Original Screenplay
- 2014 nominated Film Critics Circle of Australia — Best Film
- Australian Outback, Central Australia,