"Cunnamulla": What lies beneath? Another story?

?Cunnamulla? ? a documentary about a small, sunburnt township of inland Australia is Dennis O?Rourke?s most powerful and incendiary work to date. Subverting the conventional ideologies of small, rural towns, this Cinéma-vérité style documentary positions the auditory modality to draw negative, biased and fallacious conclusions about this ?end of the tracks?, Aussie inaccessible town. Hiding nonhing but veracity, ?Cunnamulla? paints a picture so tarnished that one can not help but apprehend Cunnamulla as an unambitious and corrupt town inhabited by feebleminded, violent and trivial towns large number.

This picture of corruption, inertness and downright negativity has been multicoloured by use of certain film techniques, technical codes and vituperative literacy conventions that misrepresent Cunnamulla, suppressing the truth in its entirety. unity of the major conventions bare throughout the documentary is the withholding of particular facts about Cunnamulla and the cotton uping of those that reinforce the position that O?Rourke wants the viewing audience to conclude to. Dennis fails to highlight the positive aspects of Cunnamulla, near totally avoiding the ambitious, productive and established good deal and areas of the town. Instead he concentrates on the corrupt and socially cheating(prenominal) aspect of town, shedding light on the poor, uneducated and downbeat townsfolk who are often shown smoking, drinking and taking drugs.



This partial and preferential representation of Cunnamulla creates a transformed, bias adaptation of reality, misleading viewers into believing the entire 1600 strong population can be represented by the 20 odd, ill fated people portrayed throughout the documentary.

Denial of facts in their entirety is not the only convention employed to misrepresent Cunnamulla as a whole. Most, if not all the footage in ?Cunnamulla? has been purposely selected by O?Rourke to underpin the ideologies and beliefs he wants the viewer to draw conclusion to. One of the major ideologies Dennis tries to portray is the triviality and feeblemindedness...

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