Shifting Sands – Grace

Clip 2: Sugar cane

1 min 16 sec

Taken from the short film Shifting Sands – Grace (1998)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G

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Curator’s clip description

Grace is walking through the sugar cane fields. In flashback the two sisters, playing in the cane fields, place necklaces around each other’s necks, laughing with glee. Grace walks back through the sugar cane. Thunder clouds roll overhead. Loretta strokes the top of her mother’s coffin.

Curator’s notes

Enoch’s drama about how Piety is mourned by a sister and a daughter – is a story about loss and belonging, identities interwoven through family histories.

Romaine Moreton, curator

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