Commissioned by the Museum of Brisbane, this hand drawn animation is a speculative history piece about the last Kangaroo to be seen at Kangaroo Point, now an idyllic suburb of central Brisbane. The piece is a non-linear layering of moments and memories, different period, facts and fantasies. We oscillate forward and backwards through time and wonder what is real and when are we now? At the centre of the piece is the story of a young boy, on the cusp of adulthood in the 1800’s who in an effort to prove his manhood to his father (the local butcher) shoots a rare Kangaroo in the growing district. Upon doing so, the boy realises that the kangaroo was a mother, by law he must now euthanise its baby joey. Written and narrated by Brisbane based writer Simon Cleary.

All around us creatures graze/The last Kangaroo of Kangaroo Point, 2020
Todd Fuller
digital video; chalk, charcoal and acrylic animation on paper
26:41 minutes
writer and narration: Simon Cleary
sound composition: Paul Smith
commissioned by the Museum of Brisbane for The Storytellers
courtesy MAY SPACE, Sydney