Shit Skin

Clip 3: ‘You always were dark’

2 min 54 sec

Taken from the short film Shit Skin (2002)

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

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Curator’s clip description

Luke (Kirk Page) and Grandma Nina (Freda Glynn) walk into the old mission house. Here, Grandma Nina encounters ghosts of yesteryear. They find out that Grandma Nina’s mother has long passed away. Once again, we are at the waterhole. Luke tells his grandmother how he used to be teased at school when the others called him ‘shit skin’, and he never knew why he went so dark over summer.

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