Confessions of a Headhunter

Clip 2: Cousins

3 min 0 sec

Taken from the short film Confessions of a Headhunter (2000)

Original title classification M – this clip chosen to be PG

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Curator’s clip description

Vinnie (Kelton Pell) is sitting beneath a tree in the park, sketching from an old photograph. Franky (Bruce Hutchinson) approaches him with a photo of his own. In the photograph are both their mothers, who it turns out, are sisters, and the two men cousins.

Curator’s notes

All of the elements of the eventual disclosure of Franky and Vinnie being cousins are present; the elder who knew both the parents and the grandparents (oral tradition), and the photograph that is evidence that the two men are related (textual tradition).

Romaine Moreton, curator

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