Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed
Clip 1: Promise husband
2 min 35 sec
Taken from the short film Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed (1998)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G
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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
In a night-time ceremony around a fire, a small girl is told she is promised to a husband. In the present day, the girl now a young woman soon to be married, Della (Urshula Yovich) packs her gear and climbs into a truck and reverses a few hundred metres to her new homestead.
Curator’s notes
A wonderful comedic introduction to the modern day version of the ancient ritual of promise marriage within Indigenous communities.
Romaine Moreton, curator
