Save Julimar Forest Experimental Anti-colonial Poem-Film

This is the second experimental poem-film of the new series. It is concerned with the ongoing threat to Julimar Forest in the 'Avon catchment' (not so far from Boorloo/Perth) by Chalice Mining. It draws colonial imagery (the horror Round House prison in Fremantle, the Western Australian Parliament House with mining economy skyscrapers peeking over the top, and Royal King's Park Tennis Club) into the ambit of the forest and also Ramsar protected wetlands on Wadandi country down near Busselton (very close to where my Irish colonial forebears arrived in the mid-nineteenth century after escaping British colonialism!) to emphasise the invasive destruction of colonial capital. Filmed on Yued, Whadjuk, Ballardong and Wadandi Boodjas it also uses the 'neon light' motif (recorded in Zürich, Switzerland).

John Kinsella