"I support all Australian films"
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On its face, "I support all Australian films" sounds like the kind of wholesome, flag-waving line you’d expect on a grant application or at a mildly boozy industry fundraiser. Coming from Yahoo Serious, it lands differently: half pledge, half punchline, and a quiet map of how small-nation culture survives.
Serious is a director whose own fame is inseparable from a very Australian kind of comedic bravado. So the absolutism here ("all") reads less like careful policy and more like a deliberate overstatement, a wink at the expectation that local artists must always be ambassadors. In bigger markets, you can afford to be picky in public; in a smaller one, critique can feel like sabotage. The line performs solidarity as a survival tactic.
The subtext is the pressure of cultural economics. Australian cinema has long wrestled with the gravitational pull of Hollywood and the awkward middle zone between art-house prestige and commercially legible entertainment. By declaring support for everything, Serious sidesteps the gatekeeping game and reframes the audience’s role: you don’t just watch a local film, you keep an ecosystem alive - crews employed, stories told in local accents, talent retained instead of exported.
It also carries a hint of defiance. If international attention is fickle, then internal loyalty becomes the only reliable infrastructure. "I support all Australian films" isn’t aesthetic surrender; it’s a vote for continuity, for the right to make imperfect work without being treated as a national embarrassment. In that way, the line is less about taste than about citizenship in a cultural sense.
Serious is a director whose own fame is inseparable from a very Australian kind of comedic bravado. So the absolutism here ("all") reads less like careful policy and more like a deliberate overstatement, a wink at the expectation that local artists must always be ambassadors. In bigger markets, you can afford to be picky in public; in a smaller one, critique can feel like sabotage. The line performs solidarity as a survival tactic.
The subtext is the pressure of cultural economics. Australian cinema has long wrestled with the gravitational pull of Hollywood and the awkward middle zone between art-house prestige and commercially legible entertainment. By declaring support for everything, Serious sidesteps the gatekeeping game and reframes the audience’s role: you don’t just watch a local film, you keep an ecosystem alive - crews employed, stories told in local accents, talent retained instead of exported.
It also carries a hint of defiance. If international attention is fickle, then internal loyalty becomes the only reliable infrastructure. "I support all Australian films" isn’t aesthetic surrender; it’s a vote for continuity, for the right to make imperfect work without being treated as a national embarrassment. In that way, the line is less about taste than about citizenship in a cultural sense.
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