Three Aboriginal women ‘cruise’ through Kings Cross and pick up a Captain (a drunken white man). They encourage him to spend his money on them, to drink until incapacitated while they steal his wallet and race off to catch a cab, self satisfied. The soundscape recalls a rural environment, while the voice-over of colonist Lieutenant William Bradley reading from his diary entries, recalls the first settlement.
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Two Bob Mermaid
Koorine surreptitiously takes part in a swimming contest. She isn’t really allowed to because she isn’t white.
Film details
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 1987
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2003
- Length
- 16'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
