Confessions of a Headhunter

Clip 3: The Dutchman

2 min 41 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

Two tourists are fussing around in front of a statue. Vinnie (Kelton Pell) and Franky AKA The Dutchman (Bruce Hutchinson) are growing frustrated, and eventually hurry them out of the way. While doing so, Franky lists the atrocities executed against Noongars by the colonists represented by the statue.

Curator’s notes

The symbolic war continues between the Noongars and the colonists as Franky hacks off the statue’s head with the intention of revenging the beheading of the statue of Noongar warrior Yagan. The removal of the statue’s head is a strong political statement that depicts a war that has never truly been acknowledged by Australian history.

Romaine Moreton, curator

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