Max Rockatansky returns as the heroic loner who drives the dusty roads of a postapocalyptic Australian Outback in an unending search for gasoline. Arrayed against him and the other scraggly defendants of a fuel-depot encampment are the bizarre warriors commanded by the charismatic Lord Humungus, a violent leader whose scruples are as barren as the surrounding landscape.

A journey across the universe in search of water to survive. A journey in search of oneself. This Italian science fiction takes us far into the future as astronauts search for humanity’s most precious resource.

In not-to-distant future France, seeds are only available through illicit sources and plants are hidden in secure places. How will Arthur react when he realises his girlfriend Sadia is breaking the law?

On a day when temperatures rise relentlessly, a woman finds herself stuck in her car. Her only salvation is the air conditioning, until the battery dies...

Tilly Boleyn is the Head of Curatorial at Science Gallery Melbourne. Her background is in museums, galleries, education, festivals, broadcasting and research. Her interests focus mainly on blurring the boundaries between science, art, design, technology, maths, engineering, large-scale-batteries-powered-by-human-urine and doing things she's told aren't allowed. She is a massive nerd who is curious about the world and everything in it.

J.R. Burgmann is an Australian writer. He graduated from the University of Melbourne and received his PhD in Literary and Cultural Studies from Monash University. He is a researcher for both the Monash Climate Change Communication Research Hub and RMIT's Extinction Imaginaries project. Children of Tomorrow, his debut novel, was highly commended in the Victorian Premier’s Literary Awards 2021 in the category of unpublished manuscripts. In 2023, it was published in Australia by Upswell and in North America by Great Plains Press. He is currently working on his second novel, Abominable, for which he received a Wheeler Centre Fellowship in 2022.

Melanie Ashe is undertaking her doctorate at the School of Film, Media and Journalism at Monash University. Her research is interested in the environmental materiality of film production and culture. Her current project investigates how Mad Max 2, among other films,  was filmed on-location in far west NSW.