VHS Tracking Presents.... Jessyca Hutchens with The Last Wave (1977)

Please join us for the next edition of VHS Tracking Presents - Goolugatup's film club

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The program invites local artists to present a wide-ranging selection of art films, classics, and new wave cinema. Curated by iconic Boorloo film critic Tristan Fidler, the creator of the celebrated local VHS Tracking film zine, and hosted by Goolugatup Gallery monthly.

In this edition, art curator Jessyca Hutchens will be presenting the film The Last Wave (1977)

Doors 6:30pm

Film Starts 7:00pm

FREE admittance, full bar, free popcorn, feel free to byo snacks, picnic rugs or low chairs.
Space limited RSVP to ensure your spot.

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THE LAST WAVE – Rated PG, 106 mins

Dream is a shadow of something real. Internationally acclaimed filmmaker Peter Weir (Oscar nominated director of PICNIC AT HANGING ROCK, GALLIPOLI and WITNESS) explores a startling world on the brink of apocalypse in THE LAST WAVE, a time and place where Mother Nature and human nature are destined to collide in catastrophic disaster. When lawyer David Burton (Richard Chamberlain) is assigned a case to defend a group of indigenous Australian men, he is unprepared for the nightmares and dreamscapes ahead. Accused of murdering one of their own, the men stand trial amidst suspicious circumstances and, as Burton becomes plagued by unsettling visions, he is drawn to the mysterious Chris Lee (AFI Award winner David Gulpilil) for answers to his torment. As the erratic climate turns dangerous, Burton senses a greater power at play, where tribal customs and the ancient ideas of Dreamtime may be more than just an ominous warning. Featuring atmospheric cinematography by Oscar winner Russell Boyd, THE LAST WAVE is a haunting journey into the depths of the unknown, where dreams and nightmares conspire as one.

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Dr Jessyca Hutchens is a Palyku woman living and working on Noongar boodja. She is a Lecturer at the School of Indigenous Studies and a Co-Director at the Berndt Museum, at the University of Western Australia. Jessyca is an art historian, curator, and writer who has previously held positions as the Curator at the Berndt Museum, a Curatorial Fellow at the Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Collection at the University of Virginia, the Curatorial Assistant to the Artistic Director for the 22nd Biennale of Sydney, and as a Lecturer in Global Art History at the University of Birmingham.

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VHS Tracking Presents.... Duncan Wright with Wake In Fright (1971)

Please join us for the next edition of VHS Tracking Presents - Goolugatup's film club

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The program invites local artists to present a wide-ranging selection of art films, classics, and new wave cinema. Curated by iconic Boorloo film critic Tristan Fidler, the creator of the celebrated local VHS Tracking film zine, and hosted by Goolugatup Gallery monthly.

In this edition, artist Duncan Wright will be presenting the film Wake In Fright (1971)

Doors 6:30pm

Film Starts 7:00pm

FREE admittance, full bar, free popcorn, feel free to byo snacks, picnic rugs or low chairs.
Space limited RSVP to ensure your spot.

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WAKE IN FRIGHT – Rated M, 104 mins

Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook and directed by Ted Kotcheff (FIRST BLOOD). Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, WAKE IN FRIGHT is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one-night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left... Also starring Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, and Chips Rafferty.

Warning: Contains strong scenes of kangaroo hunting and animal violence.

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Duncan Wright is a Western Australian photographer, artist and the founder of West End Workers Studio in Walyalup/Fremantle. Duncan works commercially across a range of clientele, and maintains an artistic practice that combines conceptual, commercial and journalistic approaches to image making. With a background working in community development, Duncan likes to immerse himself in the histories and communities of his subjects, and places great interest in the everyday people that make a place. He prides himself on creating authentic imagery, merging different ways of seeing and of processing images that draw from both historical and contemporary visual languages.

He has exhibited in various group exhibitions, including the 2021 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award in which he was a finalist. He has had two solo shows: Happiness (2021) at the Perth Centre of Photography and A Resonance, which formed part of the Fremantle Biennale 2021 program. Duncan won the 2023 Perth Centre for Photography IRIS Award for his portrait titled 'Nick, 22'.

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