ABC TV’s new series makes a compelling argument that truly powerful storytelling stems from what happens after the catastrophe
Will the dust from the black summer bushfire season ever really settle? Literally yes, of course, but symbolically and emotionally this horrible chapter in Australian history will linger for a long time in difficult to define ways. For some, for instance, the events of the 2019-2020 bushfire season marked a new era of horrific anthropogenic climate change; for others it remains an open wound in their lives, oozing personal loss and trauma.
Several black summer docos are in the can (including Wild Australia: After the Fires, A Fire Inside and Chasing Asylum director Eva Orner’s Burning) but scripted productions can take us to places documentary cannot, using the dramatic properties of performance, narrative and subtext to pursue emotional truth.
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