The read
It runs a compact 52m.
Synopsis
A poetic cine-essay about race and Australia’s colonised history and how it impacts into the present offering insights into how various individuals deal with the traumatic legacies of British colonialism and its race-based policies. The film’s consultative process, with ‘Respecting Cultures’ (Tasmanian Aboriginal Protocols), offers an evolving shift in Australian historical narratives from the frontier wars, to one of diverse peoples working through historical trauma in a process of decolonisation.
Ratings
TMDB5/10
1 audience votes
Key crew
- Jeni ThornleyDirector
- Jeni ThornleyWriter
Cast
- Jeni ThornleyNarrator
- Rinki BhattacharyaSelf
- Dur-e DaraSelf
- Jim EverettSelf
- Phyllis PitchfordSelf
- Arundhati RoySelf
- Julie JansonSelf
- Julie GoughSelf
- Clive AtkinsonSelf
- Jan ThornleySelf
Stills
Themes
australiasocial documentaryindigenous australianstasmaniantasmaniaaustralian historywomen in filmsocial & cultural documentarysuper8