Space Invaders

Glen Le Lievre masterfully invokes the unstoppable onslaught the aliens in classic video game Space Invaders to reflect the COVID-19 anxiety experienced by healthcare workers. Hospital staff desperately hurl vaccine syringes at the virus in the hope of slowing the spread and lowering the caseload. By the peak of the Omicron wave, in mid-January, Australia was reporting over 100,000 new cases a day.