The Fringe Dwellers
Clip 2: Main street
2 min 16 sec
Taken from the feature The Fringe Dwellers (1986)
Original title classification PG – 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.
Curator’s clip description
The family’s truck, laden with their possessions, begins its crawl down main street. The white townsfolk watch the truck as it makes its way to the new family home.
Curator’s notes
We begin to get the idea that in the small town the Aboriginal people are constantly watched, observed, and usually ridiculed. The poverty of the Aboriginal family means that there is class conflict as well as race conflict. The family, motivated by Trilby to get out of the fringe camp, arrive in town but are oddly out of context.
Romaine Moreton, curator
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