Snake Dreaming

Clip 2: Where are the children?

1 min 31 sec

Taken from the short film Snake Dreaming (2002)

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

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Curator’s clip description

The food gathering expedition returns to find the children left at the camp missing. The tracks reveal that a white man with boots had entered the camp and taken the children while the older women slept. The camp begins to wail.

Curator’s notes

The film is shot from the child’s perspective, and it has a rawness to it quite different to the sophisticated technique of Rabbit Proof Fence. This film is valuable in that what is being retold captures the child’s imagination.

Romaine Moreton, curator

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