A RAGING COMING OF AGE
Archibald Prize winner Del Kathryn Barton ventures beyond the artist’s studio to direct her first full-length film that takes us into the real and imaginary worlds of twelve-year-old Blaze in a harrowing coming of age tale.
I really wished I had not heard Sydney artist turned filmmaker Del Kathryn Barton’s introduction to her first full-length feature film, Blaze, at this year’s 69th Sydney Film Festival. The film was in part informed by her own experience of violence. Her preamble shepherded me in an overtly prescriptive way into how I should view
