Where the grass don’t grow

Name: Where the grass don’t grow
Director: Riley Hart
Released: 2025
Duration: 14 min

Unclassified 18+

Dir. Riley Hart / 2025 / 14 mins / Australia / English / Documentary / World Premiere

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Strap in for a meditative ride through Australia’s subculture of salt lake speed racing, as daredevil drivers pierce the vast emptiness.

Drivers travel thousands of kilometres to Lake Gairdner in outback South Australia to break Australia’s land speed record on kilometres of hard-packed salt. Captured immaculately on 16mm film with huge telephoto lenses, self-built jet-propelled cars hurtle through soupy mirages of blistering heat to a hypnotic soundtrack. A strangely ethereal silence radiates as everything but momentum falls away.

Metro sessions

Fri 7 Aug 6:30pm ACMI 2

Past Session

Documentary Shorts 1 (91 m)

Dogs and Dust (14 m)

Where the grass don’t grow (14 m)

Auto Queens (30 m)

Statues Also Die? (12 m)

Murmurations (21 m)

Documentary Shorts 1 (91 m)

Dogs and Dust (14 m)

Where the grass don’t grow (14 m)

Auto Queens (30 m)

Statues Also Die? (12 m)

Murmurations (21 m)

Past Session

ACMI 2

Past Session

Thu 20 Aug 6:45pm Kino 1

Past Session

Documentary Shorts 1 (91 m)

Dogs and Dust (14 m)

Where the grass don’t grow (14 m)

Auto Queens (30 m)

Statues Also Die? (12 m)

Murmurations (21 m)

Documentary Shorts 1 (91 m)

Dogs and Dust (14 m)

Where the grass don’t grow (14 m)

Auto Queens (30 m)

Statues Also Die? (12 m)

Murmurations (21 m)

Past Session

Kino 1

Past Session

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