The place I made my first film just burned to the ground
Yesterday, the place where I made my first film burned to the ground. It was 2015 and, fresh out of my masters degree, I had begun fumbling my way into documentary filmmaking. I had the “wrong” camera and was going about it the “wrong” way, but I was having a crack. Through one connection […]
Learning to listen and listening to learn
Catherine Cavallo Articles, Feature Articles September 18, 2024 Catherine Cavallo September 18, 2024 I’m walking down into a gully on the lands of the Dja Dja Wurrung. It is a misty morning, the winter sun yet to burn off the dew of the night before. The bush is quiet, muted. But here and there I […]
Of bird nests and bench grinders
She and her mate are bush songsters. Their melodious whistling reverberates among the eucalypts each morning and reminds me, as I lie in bed, that I have come home….
