Saturday Night, Sunday Morning
Clip 1: War paint
2 min 59 sec
Taken from the short film Saturday Night, Sunday Morning (1999)
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.
This clip contains low-level coarse language.
Curator’s clip description
A man tells his daughter he is going to the pub. Melanie (Alyssa McClelland) is waiting for her friends to pick her up and take her to the dance. A car pulls up. Three youths step out and want to purchase petrol. The man tells them that he wants to see the money first. The youths show him the money, after which he refuses them service. Perry (Jie Pittman) hits him with the barrel of a shotgun. Elvis (Luke Carroll) helps himself to the till and whatever else he can scrounge. He is interrupted by Melanie (Alyssa McClelland). The car speeds off along the highway.
Curator’s notes
A somewhat violent introduction to all of the main characters in Saturday Night, Sunday Morning. We get the sense that Melanie is existing in a rather volatile environment with her single father (Peter Browne), and is suddenly caught up it the drama of three youths desperately trying to abscond from their own predicament.
Romaine Moreton, curator
