Saturday Screening

Come along to the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia for a free screening of American psychological horror Hereditary (2018), with an introduction by First Nations artist and film-maker Hayley Millar Baker.

Hayley Millar Baker, Gunditjmara and Djabwurrung peoples, is featured in the National Gallery’s 4th National Indigenous Art Triennial Ceremony with her short film Nyctinasty (2021). Nyctinasty is a fictional narrative that builds upon the artist’s lived experience of connection to spirits and Ancestors. Shot in black and white, the film draws on the cinematic vocabulary of horror films.

Written and directed by Ari Aster, Hereditary unleashes a nightmare vision of a domestic breakdown, transforming a familial tragedy into something ominous and deeply disquieting. Starring Toni Collette, the film pushes the horror movie into chilling new terrain with its shattering portrait of heritage gone to hell.

The screening is preceded with Hayley Millar Baker’s short film Nyctinasty (2021).

Hereditary is rated MA15+, 128min.

Saturday Screenings is a free program of film screenings presented monthly in partnership with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia.