Domain Review Stonnington & Boroondara - November 30, 2022

PEOPLE & PROPERTY OF MELBOURNE

NOVEMBER 30-DECEMBER 6, 2022

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AUSSIE DIRECTOR DAZZLES DOLLY

DOCUMENTARY

RACHEL PERKINS ON OUR DARK PAST

MUSIC

GEORGIA FIELDS’ RAW NEW ALBUM

ADALITA

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Music has the power to inspire, console, and bring joy and revelation to its listeners – and even more so to those who write it. For our cover star, Magic Dirt front woman turned solo artist Adalita, writing the songs on her new album was a way to understand how she feels about love and relationships at the mid-point of life. Along with Adalita, this week we’re featuring three other female artists – musician Georgia Fields and filmmakers Gracie Otto and Rachel Perkins. Each uses their work to enlighten, to inform and to comfort. I hope you enjoy reading their stories as much as I did. ●

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ustralian filmmaker and actor Gracie Otto makes her fictional film directorial debut with Seriously Red – a comedy-drama featuring close friend Rose Byrne, which tells the story of a wannabe Dolly Parton impersonator.

Her famous father, the actor Barry Otto, always encouraged Otto’s eccentricities growing up. Her mother, Susan Hill, who worked at Belvoir St Theatre where she met Barry, also nurtured her daughter’s desire to try everything from playing soccer professionally – it took her to Greece, Canada and New Zealand – to becoming a filmmaker.

“I only officially moved out of home at 30,” says 35-year-old Otto, whose half-sister is actor Miranda Otto.

The real deal Gracie Otto’s new film gets the Dolly Parton tick of approval.

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“I have always been into travelling ever since I can remember, and based myself with my parents in between saving up to pay rent for three months to be based elsewhere. I did stints in Paris and then was in LA for two years, but always had a room at theirs. I finally bought an apartment in Sydney. It’s only 39 square metres, but it’s enough for someone as transient as me.”

Seriously Red stars Australian actor Krew Boylan as Raylene “Red” Delaney, who ditches her real estate job to chase her dream gig as a Parton impersonator.

The kooky f lick is harmless fun at its best, with plenty of rhinestones and a glimmer of hope about it.

Dolly Parton herself approved the songs to be used in the movie. After seeing it, the queen of country music tweeted: “I just loved Seriously Red. The film is a wonderful tribute to being the best version of yourself ”.

Comedian Celeste Barber also joins the cast alongside Byrne, who plays an Elvis Presley impersonator and Byrne’s husband, actor Bobby Cannavale, who fits the Neil Diamond impersonator role to a tee.

“Bobby Cannavale was filming Nine Perfect Strangers when I asked him to play Neil,” Otto says. “I met Bobby in a cafe in Brunswick Heads at the end of 2020 and discussed the character. He got up and started singing a Neil Diamond song. He looked at me and said, ‘Kinda like that?’ I replied, ‘Yes, totally like that’.”

When Cannavale got on stage to sing his intended four lines in the movie, he didn’t just stop at the script’s requirements.

“I wasn’t going to cut him either,” Otto says. “He was wearing tight leather pants and in a full Neil Diamond moment … it’s one of my favourite scenes.

“We have a great behind-the-scenes video of it, too. Bobby is exceptional. He’s performed on Broadway, so of course he would be!”

Next on her to-do list is a Stan Originals documentary titled Otto on Otto, about her father’s 50-year career in Australian theatre, film and television and her relationship with him. It’s an epic undertaking but one she’s ready to tackle. It is due for release in 2023.

“It’s a huge task but one I am really excited about,” Otto says. “It was filmmaker Nick Broomfield who told me I should do a documentary one day, and here I am.” ●

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COVER STORY Indie music

queen Adalita explores the darker side of love on her new album.

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rom Geelong’s punk scene with her ’90s band Magic Dirt to life as a solo artist, Adalita Srsen has drunk from grunge’s plentiful cup, won a swag of ARIA Awards with her band and found a way to keep going after losing her friend and band member to cancer at the peak of their game.

But it’s taken until her third studio album, Inland, for her to truly make peace with the future.

It’s hard to imagine what it’s like to sit with songs you wrote for eight years before they see the light of day – considering how much one changes over that time – but that’s exactly where Srsen found herself in between touring, a pandemic and releasing the new album.

Inland is a roadmap to her toughened heart and sees her navigate the complexities of love and the carnage it leaves behind. There’s intentional introspection, minimal fuss and lots of dissecting that takes place.

Srsen has been in and out of some heavy and many enjoyable relationships, but says that being on the road as a touring musician certainly keeps life’s cycle happening at a pace different to those on the other side.

“These songs came out of a period of introspection about obsessive love and infatuation that has been happening all around me, and things I had experienced, and they’ve taken until now to come to fruition,” she says.

“I can’t help but write about the human experience.

These songs either happened to me or someone close to me.

“I frantically got researching into obsessive love and what makes people fall into it. I wanted to look at why some succumb to it like a ball and chain and make it a pattern they can’t get out of.

“I love the psychology of love – I wanted to know why do some of us love too much, why can’t others have healthy boundaries in love, and why do some of us look for love in the wrong places?”

While she didn’t arrive at a conclusion, Srsen admits it was a cathartic process of discovery and letting go.

“Being older and wiser means you change,” she says. “I have been through a lot of growing pains to

get to middle life. I know I have matured; I have had a lot of self-reflection happen. This is about documenting that.”

Srsen is best known for her sludgy wah-wahpedal-noise band Magic Dirt – who got their infamous start at The Barwon Club in the early ’90s before they moved to Melbourne and signed to record label Liberation. She reflects on those halcyon days as forever ingrained in the DNA of her musical style.

It was Magic Dirt’s late bass player and record producer, Dean Turner, who first told her she should consider making a solo album.

She honoured his request with a self-titled debut solo release in 2011, two years after his passing.

Then came a follow-up, All Day Venus, in 2013.

“It feels like I have contributed a fair chunk to the Melbourne music scene through Magic Dirt,” Srsen says with reflection.

She rescues cats and documents the journey on her Instagram stories, and says she’s always been fiercely protective of animals.

“I have always loved animals and nature – whether that animal is a pet, a farm animal or an insect, I’d be the one picking up snails off the driveway to make sure they’re OK,” Srsen says.

“I got into vegetarianism and veganism in my late teens. That’s when the penny dropped. I didn’t want to eat animals any more because I didn’t want them to get slaughtered.

“As soon as I was aware of that side of things, it moved to being against animal testing.”

An avid photographer in her spare time, Srsen also plans to release a book of her portraiture and landscapes one day soon.

“I remember picking up a camera for the first time and experiencing the same rush as when I first started playing guitar and feeling [like] this is

“I can’t help but write about the human experience.

These songs either happened to me or someone close to me.”

“I feel I am part of the community and happy to still be here, have people still vibe off my music.

“I feel I do a lot. I am always saying yes and diving into stuff and still excitable and enthusiastic about everything I do.

“From a tribute gig at The Tote to mentoring and getting together with my mates to do a Rolling Stones tribute, I feel like a cog in the machine, but one I am glad I am still part of.”

In her latest video clip, Savage Love, Srsen hits the regional road in a black hot-rod and wearing a fringed gold jacket that screams ‘look at who you fell out of love with’.

It’s a pensive swirl of emotions, with enough revs to keep an ex-lover curious; it plays out like a clip, but you wish it was movie-length. “I wanted to be a director if I wasn’t going to do music,” Srsen says.

Away from her music career, she is a passionate environmentalist and animal rights activist.

something new and exciting and I have a knack for it,” she says.

“I’ve now moved onto a semi-pro camera and taken many shots. They’re guerrilla-style and spontaneous.”

The cover art on Srsen’s album is a self-portrait she took while visiting the Western District Lakes near Colac.

“This black-and-white picture really captures me; I remember driving out there after lockdown to take this shot,” she recalls.

“I feel somewhat at peace looking at myself here.

This album is a nod to the themes that shaped me.

It’s … a beautiful artefact of sorts.

“It’s about jumping off this spot and being ready for the next thing. I’m ready to go there.” ● INLAND ALBUM LAUNCH \ Brunswick Ballroom, December 2.

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Falling into the melody

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elbourne indie artist Georgia Fields writes about a world of longing on her third studio album Hiraeth; the title is a Welsh word that alludes to a desire to go back to a place that no longer exists.

She sings about love and loss, and explores old wounds to find a melodic way forward. And as someone who has been part of Melbourne’s music scene for 10 years, she is constantly on the hunt for new ways to evolve as an artist.

It took five government grant applications to get the funding for the album underway.

Final approval by Creative Victoria and the Australian Council of the Arts made it possible for the mother of two to head to country Victoria and work with producer Josh Barber (Gotye, Gretta Ray) in his convertedchurch studio.

“The songs are about love, losing your friends to mental health

MUSIC Georgia Fields’ new album

delves into the pain of the past.

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challenges and there’s even a song about pregnancy loss,” Fields says.

“I remember when I experienced that, I couldn’t find any songs about it. For me, it was important to document that experience [because] I was surprised there wasn’t a song that came to mind about it, considering how common pregnancy loss is.”

Hiraeth is a world of art pop alchemy where loops, guitars and bruised lyrics about motherhood, death and infidelity come together to create Fields’ safety net and push plenty of boundaries.

“I had the songs before I started making the album,” Fields says.

“It was only when my son was a

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toddler that I felt ready to get back into things.

“But being an independent artist meant the grant process was long because I refined my pitch many times. I think it all worked out for the better as I have a record that I am really proud of.”

Fields lives in Rosanna, in a midcentury home with her musician husband and their daughter and son.

She grew up surrounded by music – her parents met while playing in the band The Ferrets, which her uncle Billy Miller still fronts.

The Ferrets were signed to Gudinski’s Mushroom label and released a debut album Dreams of Love in 1977. They supported Blondie

on their first Australian tour in the same year.

“I remember going to pubs and seeing the band, but more vivid are the memories of Christmas because that’s when we all come together to jam,” Fields says.

“Everyone plays, from my son to my nana, who would occasionally get on the piano … music was a normal part of the everyday in our house growing up.”

For someone who describes herself as an introvert and extrovert, finding the right balance between family life and performing is one she is still fine-tuning.

“Being present in music feels like I am neglecting the other, but what I am enjoying about this time is that only when you have kids of your own do you examine your own childhood and the relationship you had with your own family as a kid,” she says.

“That is quite eye-opening for me.” ●

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Rachel Perkins’ new doco tells the true story of the frontier wars.

ward-winning filmmaker Rachel Perkins spent years contemplating the making of The Australian Wars, a three-part documentary that looks at the frontier wars and what it meant for First Nations people before colonisation.

But it was in between working on new seasons of her Blackfella Films productions Mystery Road and Total Control that she was able to focus on the documentary. Perkins travelled across the country to retell key aspects of a war that lasted more than 100 years – from the landing of the First Fleet in 1788 until the 1920s.

Perkins is the daughter of the late Charles Perkins, a civil rights activist who dedicated his

life to achieving justice for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people and the first Aboriginal man to graduate from a university in Australia in 1966.

She is following in his footsteps as an activist through her films.

“The documentary is part of the national conversation we need to have around the origins of our country,” Perkins says.

“Other countries don’t have the denial that we have, and it’s such a strange thing.

“In New Zealand, they have changed the name from The Maori Wars to The New Zealand Wars and embraced it, and in Germany, there are public monuments to the Holocaust.”

Perkins got a taste of TV and film work at age 18 while undertaking a traineeship at the Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association (CAAMA).

A few years later, she understood exactly what her purpose was behind the camera. That led to work at SBS and ABC TV. “I knew I wanted to make ambitious work and speak to a wider audience,” Perkins says.

Plenty of criticism has come her way for the making of The Australian Wars – from those on the far right who query why she hasn’t made a documentary about her late father, to those asking

about the plight of convicts held against their will at the time.

“There’s been a lot of mansplaining,” she says.

At 52, Perkins is unfazed by the critics and is on a mission to share Indigenous stories with dignity and make them a fair representation of what went on.

Reconciliation Australia’s Reconciliation Barometer survey revealed only 64 per cent of nonIndigenous Australians believed the frontier wars occurred, with 30 per cent of respondents unsure

“Resistance from Aboriginal people was strong from the 1780s through to the late 1850s. [They] were effective defenders of their country.”

Perkins has directed feature films, such as 2010’s Bran Nue Dae and 2017’s Jasper Jones, and never felt gender was an issue in her career path.

“For me, it was more that Indigenous people in education suffer from low expectations,” she says.

“When I left bureaucracies like SBS and ABC I had bigger ambitions, and that is why I left them

“The documentary is part of the national conversation we need to have around the origins of our country.” and 6 per cent rejecting the factual accuracy of significant aspects of Australia’s colonial history.

Perkins is all about shining a light on a history she says needs to be taught in schools.

“It was the fact that Aboriginal people resisted so strongly to the British that militarisation escalated,” she says. “There is also a myth that Aboriginal people lay down or that white people came here and massacred everybody.

and started my own company. It wasn’t until Sally Riley became the head of the Australian Indigenous Film Commission [in 2000] and set an agenda for more ambitious TV dramas, feature films and crossover from drama to documentary, that things started to happen for Indigenous filmmakers.” ● THE AUSTRALIAN WARS \ Three-part series available on SBS On Demand.

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Set in a heritage streetscape and within walking distance of everything that makes Armadale a much-loved blue-chip suburb, this home is ideal for modern life.

The facade is pure Edwardian – exquisitely detailed and storybook pretty with carved wood, bay windows and a welcoming verandah.

Inside, the period flourishes continue with stunning fretwork in the second bedroom, plus arches, decorative ceilings and fireplaces.

In this original section of the home, the main bedroom suite, with a wide box-bay window, includes a walk-in wardrobe and en suite with shower.

The second bedroom has a semicircular bay window and fireplace, and the third has built-in wardrobes.

Also towards the front of the house is the formal lounge.

Again, a box-bay window adds warmth and whimsy and the fireplace is quite ornate.

Contemporary style and up-to-the-minute functionality take over at the rear of the home.

The kitchen, dining and informal living areas range fullwidth across the rear of the house. This zone opens to the covered entertainment deck and the pool, giving the area a fresh and light indoor-outdoor atmosphere.

Gleaming white with a marble waterfall bench and striking designer pendant lights, the kitchen is well set up for everyday use and entertaining.

It has premium appliances, a large pantry and ample storage in deep drawers and overhead cupboards.

Also in this section of the home are the family bathroom

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The home has reverse-cycle heating and cooling, a ducted vacuum system and undercover parking at the rear.

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’SEACROFT’ c1896 An evocative, elegant seaside estate comprising two dwellings, at SEACROFT, the past, present and future meet - and the beach lies at the end of the street.

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25 Hartley Road, Wonga Park Family estates of this calibre rarely come onto the market. Set on 12 acres of semi-bush and manicured gardens, this outstanding French inspired residence provides a stunning contemporary family environment.

Spectacular and expansive living spaces include dining and entertaining - cinema, poolroom, library, two studies and retreat - encapsulating infinite luxury. Large family kitchen defined by granite benches, Miele appliances and scullery.

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Sanctuary-like grounds encircle numerous al fresco zones with an outdoor kitchen, pool, tennis court, half-size basketball court, equestrian facilities, a two-hole golf course and private helipad with garage.

Only 34km to Melbourne's CBD and the magnificent Yarra Valley wine region at your doorstep. Few properties in Melbourne offer such a complete family compound.

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