 A beautiful young man has been summoned to an eerie meditation retreat by a dying theatre director. The young man has been given a tape of instructions; over a weekend he must perform scenes from the director s life. He visits different rooms encountering five actresses who all portray key women in the director s life. They rehearse the boy to play the lead role in an as yet  unmade film . The dying director watches young boy s progress as he searches to inhabit the director s identity. It s an Alice in Wonderland tale and an unpredictable journey of self discovery for all concerned... Recalling the work of France s Claire Denis, Taiwan s Tsai-Ming Liang and American art-house directors Gus Van Sant and Stanley Kubrick, Hackworth and his talented collaborators fashion a film not often seen in the Australian context. Sculptural, psychological and ethereal, Corroboree is a shameless  crie de cour  against the death of creativity in Australian film - and the "camp aesthetic". Says Hackworth, "I wanted to remind people that stories in cinema don t always have to be told naturalistically". Corroboree is a haunting experience of intense beauty and restraint. Shot in one location over 20 days, Corroboree was produced by Perth s Matteo Bruno, co-written by artist Peter Savieri and lusciously photographed on film by cinematographer Katie Milwright. A must for anyone who loves cinema.