Published 13 July 201715 August 2017 · News / Events / Announcement / Main Posts Sci-fi marathon at the Melbourne International Film Festival Editorial team Screening of Dead-End Drive-In MIFF sci-fi marathon From 9.30pm, Saturday 12 August The Astor, 1 Chapel Street, Melbourne In the spring issue of 1972, Overland published the short story ‘Crabs’ by then little-known writer from Bacchus Marsh, Peter Carey. In 1986, ‘Crabs’ was made into the film, Dead End Drive-In. To coincide with the forty-fifth anniversary, Overland is republishing ‘Crabs’, alongside an interview fiction editor Jennifer Mills conducted with Carey about the tumultuous period the story came out of, and about Carey’s work more generally. Overland has also teamed up with the Melbourne International Film Festival to screen Dead End Drive-In and host a discussion about the story and, more broadly, to examine the ongoing phenomenon of Australian dystopia in print and on screen. Dead End Drive-In is showing as part of an all-night retrospective at the Astor, alongside other sci-fi classics. Here’s a taste. Tickets available via the MIFF website. *The Dystopia on Film panel will take place Thursday 17 August at The Wheeler Centre from 6:30pm. Editorial team More by Editorial team › Overland is a not-for-profit magazine with a proud history of supporting writers, and publishing ideas and voices often excluded from other places. If you like this piece, or support Overland’s work in general, please subscribe or donate. Related articles & Essays 28 March 20249 April 2024 · Main Posts Why we should value not only lived experience, but also lived expertise Sukhmani Khorana In the wake of this year’s International Day for the Elimination of Racial Discrimination, I want to extend the central idea of El Gibbs’s 2022 essay on 'lived expertise' and argue that in media accounts of racism, analytical expertise and lived experience ought to be valued together and even in the same body. 5 March 2024 · Main Posts Andrew Charlton’s school assignment Alex McKinnon Australia's Pivot to India exists for three reasons: so that when Andrew Charlton is interviewed on the radio or introduced on Q+A, his bio includes the phrase "he has written a book about Indian-Australian relations"; to fend off accusations that he is another Kristina Keneally engaging in electoral colonialism in western Sydney; and to help the Albanese government strengthen economic and military ties with Modi’s Bharatiya Janata Party.
