Matthew Le Nevez as Damien Parer. Source: Pericles Films.
Damian Parer was the cinematographer who covered the Australians in the Middle East, and then filmed Kokoda Front Line, which defines the experience of that campaign in the wider history to this day. He was killed with the Americans a year later.
Watch Kokoda Front Line now, and the art is startlingly obvious. Damien Parer made every shot count, took us into the realities of mud and slaughter and exhaustion, of a mental state beyond cognition, and a war which consumed a culture in ways we have forgotten.
