Corroboree

September 12, 2007 Filmmaker Ben Hackworth has crafted something Australian cinema has not seen for some time -- an uncompromising concept film inhabiting the very fringes of the art house. Singular though it may be, most will find his debut feature, "Corroboree," fairly impenetrable so it seems destined to remain an esoteric festival-circuit challenge for those who like that sort of thing. A series of performance workshops centering on newcomer Conor O'Hanlon evolved into a collection of stagy scenes with an extremely loose narrative, courtesy of Hackworth and the film's production designer, Peter Savieri.

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