Both Covid and Black Lives Matter inspired the Dutch-Australian director to make The Survival of Kindness – with a lead actor who had never been inside a cinema before
, where de Heer cast a lead actor with cerebral palsy, who was unable to walk or could only speak with a voice synthesiser. Or his unwillingness to depict the violence of Australia’s brutal frontier wars in The Tracker, where he used still images of paintings to represent events instead. Or, the first full-length Australian feature made entirely in Indigenous language, which received widespread critical and popular acclaim.
“I was needing to make a film for complex reasons, including needing to learn how to make a film differently because everything had fallen in a heap, really, for cinema,” de Heer says.When Covid-19 arrived, it brought into focus all manner of intransigent social justice issues, in particular access to healthcare during Covid, and the Black Lives Matter movement.
– and yet, she carries the film with her nuanced and moving performance. “It’s not a coincidence that somebody correct for the casting is more likely to be a refugee in this country than somebody who’s not,” de Heer says.
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