Lynette Wallworth: the unknown filmmaker leading the world in virtual reality

By Garry Maddox
Updated December 1 2016 - 6:28pm, first published 9:08am
Recognised for her groundbreaking work ... Lynnette Wallworth. Photo: Illustration by John Shakespeare
Recognised for her groundbreaking work ... Lynnette Wallworth. Photo: Illustration by John Shakespeare

Lynette Wallworth locks her mobile phone into a headset and hands it over with a set of headphones. And for the next 17 minutes, sitting in an inner city cafe bobbing and twisting to see what's happening in every direction, it's like being deep in the Australian outback experiencing how an Aboriginal elder felt when an atomic test devastated the landscape in the 1950s.

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