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Hammer Bay (2007)

Hammer Bay poster
Directed by
Ben Briand
Country
Australia
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A TV film that mixes a story with fake documentary segments. It follows people in a coastal Australian town as they deal with everyday life and hidden tensions.

experimentalreflectiveunconventionalcontemplativeambiguouslow-keyfictional-documentary

What happens

Hammer Bay is a 2007 Australian TV film written and directed by Ben Briand. The film's unconventional structure is part narrative and part fabricated documentary. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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