Snake Dreaming
Clip 1: Child’s play
2 min 37 sec
Taken from the short film Snake Dreaming (2002)
Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G
Availability of the complete title
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
A black-and-white clip shows the dramatisation of a story told by the old people in Central Australia. Children are playing games – clapping, drawing in the dirt. A woman announces that some children are going to go with her to get some food. Other children are left behind with the older women, who fall asleep. We see the ominous arrival of a four-wheel drive truck.
Curator’s notes
This film is all the more engaging when we understand that it is young filmmakers who are re-telling through film a story told to them by their elders.
Romaine Moreton, curator
