A stunning debut by Australian director Kasimir Burgess, Fell is an entrancing and enigmatic drama - a dreamlike, visually resplendent tale of nature, revenge and redemption. While on a camping trip, Thomas' only daughter, Lara, is killed by a logging truck in a hit-and-run accident for which the driver, Luke, serves a prison sentence. Stricken with grief, Thomas sheds his urban life and his identity, and moves to the remote town where Lara was killed. There he takes on a new name, Chris, and finds work as a logger.
Cinematography
Forests shot like cathedral and graveyard combined.
Acting
Matt Nable's silence screams louder than dialogue ever could.
Direction
Burgess makes logging feel like slow-motion murder.
Director
Kasimir Burgess
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Kasimir Burgess shot this in regional Victoria during actual logging operations—some 'extras' were real loggers who didn't know they were in a film.
The name change from Thomas to Chris mirrors Australia's colonial erasure: new identity, stolen land, original sin unacknowledged.
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