The Park

Abstract

The Park is a poetic documentary by Kim Munro which explores the final eight months before the closure of Wantirna Caravan Park on the outskirts of Melbourne. Residents of the park were handed eviction notices and given a year to vacate in December 2016. This film de-centres narrative to provide a series of vignettes of life in the park as the residents collect petitions, write letters and hold roadside protests. In her accompanying writing, Munro reflects on the way poetry in documentary can function as a means of reconsidering and problematising the expository-authority of the filmmaker.

Keywords

• documentary
• poetic documentary
• narrative
• filmmaker