Loved Up – Endangered
Clip 3: A black rose
2 min 2 sec
Taken from the documentary Loved Up – Endangered (2005)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be PG
Availability of the complete title
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.
Curator’s clip description
Animated sequence of a funeral. The interview subject tells of the death of the father of her first child as a consequence of the loss of a role in society.
Curator’s notes
While parts of Endangered have a light, Sex and the City feel to them, the undertones are very serious and speak of cultural responsibility – and of the problems faced by Indigenous youth today in finding a partnership that allows them to propagate cultural values. The statistics of high incarceration of Indigenous males, as reported in this clip, and a life span at least 20 years shorter than non-Indigenous males, explain the difficulties described by Indigenous women wanting to marry Indigenous men – impeded as they are by the social and political issues that frame the Aboriginal experience.
Romaine Moreton, curator
