Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed
Clip 3: Startled away
2 min 10 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
Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, startling Alvin, who disappears from the room with his guitar.
Curator’s notes
The contemporary idea of a promise marriage being played out as a romantic comedy is a beautiful concept. The shy evasive promise husband, who attempts to avoid the advances of his wife to be, is essentially the story of two strangers attempting to get to know each other.
Romaine Moreton, curator
