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Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts

(Soda_Jerk, 2018)
Soda_Jerk in person

Columbus Premiere

Two woman stand in front of a storm

Few films have captured the horrors of our contemporary moment like Terror Nullius, a new project by the two-person art collective Soda_Jerk. Revealing the dark heart of Australia, the anarchic film remixes footage from the country’s cinematic history to bring its suppressed histories to the surface. No national icon is safe from the pair’s video wizardry. Not Mad Max. Not Picnic on Hanging Rock. Not even Crocodile Dundee. A major Australian funder of the project released a statement the day before the film’s premiere saying they did not wish to be associated with it. A punk-rock yelp against the injustices of the world, Terror Nullius is an unbridled cinematic fever dream of political vengeance. (55 mins., DCP)

"Weird, dazzling, kinetic, dizzyingly ambitious, sensationally mishmashed beast of an Australian film, one part video art installation project, one part revisionist documentary, and one part, I don’t know—LSD-infused YouTube compilation video."
—"Guardian" (Australia)
Two woman stand in front of a storm

Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts, image courtesy of the artists.

Desert, apocalyptic road race

Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts, image courtesy of the artists.

Cosponsored by Ohio State’s Office of Student Life Multicultural Center.

 

SEASON SUPPORT FOR FILM/VIDEO

Rohauer Collection Foundation

 

SUPPORT FOR THE FILM/VIDEO STUDIO PROGRAM

Institute of Museum and Library Services

National Endowment for the Arts

 

GENERAL OPERATING SUPPORT FOR THE WEXNER CENTER

Greater Columbus Arts Council

Ohio Arts Council

The Columbus Foundation

Nationwide Foundation

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Terror Nullius: A Political Revenge Fable in Three Acts