Utopia documentary full biography

An investigation into Australia’s suppressed colonial past and rapacious present.

Epic in its production, scope and revelations, Utopia represents a long journey through the ‘secret country’ of John Pilger’s homeland. It is his fourth film about Indigenous Australia, the oldest, most enduring human presence on Earth.

Released in 2013 and filmed over two years, Utopia breaks what amounts to a recurring national silence about the brutalising of Indigenous people. One of the film’s striking elements is the trust given to Pilger by so many indigenous Australians to ‘voice their voices’.

New footage is juxtaposed with that of his earlier films. The point is made that little has changed for many of those excluded from white Australia’s wealth, regardless of an official apology for ‘wrongs past and present’.

This Australian Tale of Two Cities contrasts the material comfort of the majority with the First Australians who die from Dickensian diseases in their Utopia - John Pilger BAXA