Shifting Sands – Passing Through

Clip 1: Roadside stop

2 min 48 sec

Taken from the short film Shifting Sands – Passing Through (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

The family pull up at a gas station. The children are sent off to the toilet. Margie (Margaret Harvey) spies two elders Bert Nandy (Bruce Oliver) and Uncle Sam (Gnarnayarrahe Waitarie) sitting in a shed across the road. Flashback; a young Margie (Llania Pender) skipping a hoop across the road. Present; Margie gets out of the car. She tells Charlie (Luke Elliott) she’s going for a yarn. Margie approaches the elders who introduce themselves. Charlie enters the shop. The two children Janaya (Janaya Pender) and Shannon (Shannon Elliot) are in an old corrugated toilet. They run out screaming. They run to their father in the shop.

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