Gallery curator Andrew Halyday said Soda_Jerk: TERROR NULLIUS had quite a year of controversy.

“In my mind, that was one reason we had to have it,” he said. 

“It’s cut-ups of every Australian film you can think with languages all switched around.” 

“It’s political. It’s funny as well.” 

Mr Halyday said the film was quite timely given the current climate. 

“It gives a scathing critique on climate policies, immigration policies, race relations and ingrained attitudes of misogyny,” he said. 

“People will be talking.” 

TERROR NULLIUS will be screening on the hour, every hour, throughout the duration of the exhibition in the Margaret Carnegie Gallery until February 10, 2019, at the Wagga Art Gallery. 

SYNOPSIS

TERROR NULLIUS is a political revenge fable which is part political satire, eco-horror and road movie.

Binding together a documentary impulse with the bent plotlines of Australian film texts, Soda_Jerk’s revisionist history opens a willful narrative space where cinema fictions and historical facts permeate each other in new ways.

The apocalyptic desert camps of Mad Max 2 become the site of refugee detention, feminist motorcycle gangs rule the highways and flesh-eating sheep are recast as anti-colonial insurgents.

In doing so, Soda_Jerk mount a critique of Australian history and identity with a sensibility so furious, so larrikin, and, ultimately, so Australian.

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