Hanlon Larsen Fellowship

Supporting ambitious avant-garde screen-based work

Launched in 2020, the annual Hanlon Larsen Screen Fellowship provides an award of $45,000 cash and in-kind to support an experimental film project. The 2025 Fellowship is delivered in partnership with Adelaide Film Festival, Flinders University, The Mercury and ILA. Established by Peter Hanlon in honour of his friend, collaborator and industry luminary, the late Cole Larsen.

The 2025 recipient, experimental short film Fear Of Songs written and directed by Hannah Moore, recreates news footage of a night in 2002 when a Palestinian man was released from the Woomera Detention Centre.

Fear of Songs

In 2002, a young Palestinian asylum seeker is released from Australian detention — but the footage capturing this pivotal moment vanishes, never archived. Fear of Songs is an experimental short film that attempts to reconstruct what was lost, blurring memory, media, and imagination. Through absence, it questions who gets to be seen, and what is remembered.