Shifting Sands – Passing Through

Clip 2: Hip hop-pety stew

2 min 28 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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Curator’s clip description

Aida (Justine Saunders) comes out of the house to greet Margie (Margaret Harvey) and family Charlie (Luke Elliot), Shannon (Shannon Elliot) and Janaya (Janaya Pender). The family are served ‘hip hop-pety stew’. Margie tells them that they met Bert and Sam. Aunty tells them that those old fellas are dead.

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