In a sprawling housing estate still under development, two bored teenagers play increasingly risky games. Their teasing coquetry quickly takes a dark turn, but disturbing events that should snap the couple out of it only seem to draw them closer together. A winner and nominee for several Walkley Awards, director Rebecca Metcalf capitalises on her background in documentary and journalism to deploy observational shots of half-built homes, construction sites and endless drilling, depicting this outer suburb as a site not only of ennui but of subtle menace.
Development
Two teenagers in a suburban development channel their confused romantic tension into a series of violent and flirtatious dares. 'Development' documents a moment in time when the pair's push-pull relationship reaches a breaking point.
