Beneath Clouds
(2001, 85 min., 35mm) AUSTRALIA
Director: Ivan Sen (Gamilaroi)

Australian filmmaker Ivan Sen blends controlled composition with spontaneity in this interior road film, where two hitchhiking Aboriginal teens meet on the long road to Sydney. In this partly autobiographical film, his first feature, Sen mirrors the clash between Lena and Vaughn's personal ideals and disappointments through land, identity, and their tale-telling encounters along the way, always emphasizing the journey over the destination.

Reviews

"Beneath Clouds strikes a chord in indigenous and non-indigenous minds and hearts by subtly revealing something all of us should remember: we each have the power of choice." - Bird Runningwater, Sundance Native Forum.

Image credit: Ivan Sen at CAA - photograph by Charmaine Jackson-John; Beneath Clouds