These films are situated, as O’Rourke says, “In that shifting terminus of civilization, where modern mass-culture grates and pushes against the original, essential aspects of humanity; and where much of what passes for ‘values’ in Western Culture is exposed, in stark relief, as banal and fake.”

The more recent films (“Cannibal Tours”, The Good Woman of Bangkok and Cunnamulla) also directly address questions of the role of the documentary storyteller and the purpose of documentary films per se.

O'Rourke's films defy categorization and his solo filmmaking methods challenge the very framework of documentary story-telling practice. 'I don't make the film, but the film makes me,' he says.

See Dennis O'Rourke's individual titles: