Shifting Sands – Grace
Clip 1: Piety
3 min 2 sec
Taken from the short film Shifting Sands – Grace (1998)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G
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
Grace (Justine Saunders) returns home to not much welcome. Her niece Loretta (Roxanne McDonald) leads Grace to her recently departed sister’s room.
Curator’s notes
This clip gives a sense of the different trajectories of the once close sisters. Justine Saunders as Grace gives a compelling performance. This character whose voice we never really hear, whose thoughts are never really expressed, seems silenced by the grief of losing her sister, who we sense was her closest friend. Grace’s family resents her absence from their lives. The character of Grace makes one think of the many Indigenous peoples who, for various reasons, live estranged from their families. Grace now finds herself on a journey of remembering a place to which she once belonged.
Romaine Moreton, curator
