Beneath Clouds
Clip 2: Cotton chippers
2 min 57 sec
Taken from the feature Beneath Clouds (2002)
Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG
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Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.
This clip contains low-level coarse language.
Curator’s clip description
Vaughn (Damien Pitt) and Lena (Danielle Hall) are given a lift down the road by a car of cotton chippers.
Curator’s notes
The limited employment opportunities for Aboriginal people in rural Australia is very much the context of this film. The need to self-create with limited resources is the obstacle that must be overcome. The cheap labour of the seasonal worker is the only income for many Indigenous peoples in areas such as these.
Romaine Moreton, curator
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