VHS Tracking Presents:
Wake In Fright (1971) with Duncan Wright
Wednesday 14 May 2025 6:30pm
Goolugatup Heathcote

Wake In Fright (1971)

Based on the novel by Kenneth Cook and directed by Ted Kotcheff (First Blood). Awe-inspiring, brutal and stunning, Wake In Fright is the story of John Grant, a bonded teacher who arrives in the rough outback mining town of Bundanyabba planning to stay overnight before catching the plane to Sydney. But his one-night stretches to five and he plunges headlong toward his own destruction. When the alcohol-induced mist lifts, the educated John Grant is no more. Instead there is a self-loathing man in a desolate wasteland, dirty, red-eyed, sitting against a tree and looking at a rifle with one bullet left… Also starring Jack Thompson, Donald Pleasence, and Chips Rafferty.

Warning: Contains strong scenes of kangaroo hunting and animal violence.

Duncan Wright

Duncan Wright is a Western Australian photographer, artist and the founder of West End Workers Studio in Walyalup/Fremantle. Duncan works commercially across a range of clientele, and maintains an artistic practice that combines conceptual, commercial and journalistic approaches to image making. With a background working in community development, Duncan likes to immerse himself in the histories and communities of his subjects, and places great interest in the everyday people that make a place. He prides himself on creating authentic imagery, merging different ways of seeing and of processing images that draw from both historical and contemporary visual languages.

He has exhibited in various group exhibitions, including the 2021 Fremantle Art Centre Print Award in which he was a finalist. He has had two solo shows: Happiness (2021) at the Perth Centre of Photography and A Resonance, which formed part of the Fremantle Biennale 2021 program. Duncan won the 2023 Perth Centre for Photography IRIS Award for his portrait titled ‘Nick, 22’.

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