AustLit

'Taking as emblematic her recollections of the impact of encountering Dogs in Space on the threshold of adulthood in the late 1980s, Laura Carroll proposes that the film’s layered and collage-like relationship to time, place and genre make it available as a map for young Australians, especially those growing up outside the major cities, who seek to find their ways into lives of aesthetic and political playfulness and creativity. Her essay offers a series of readings of the film’s physical and social space-making gestures, concentrating on the messy, fertile microcosm of the inner urban share house, pinning those reflections to an autobiographical narrative which shifts between past and present in a way that mirrors the film’s alternating invention and re-enactment of the world it explores.'

Source: Abstract.