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Jo Coghlan, Associate Professor, Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences, University of New England

Rewatching Picnic at Hanging Rock at 50: an unsettling portrayal of place, silence and disappearance

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Peter Weir’s Picnic at Hanging Rock, released 50 years ago, is remembered for its eerie atmosphere and mysterious story. But beneath its haunting beauty, the film challenges the idea of colonial control over the Australian landscape.

The rock becomes a place that refuses to be explained or conquered by European logic.

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