Dark

Using footage shot during the first Aboriginal Land Rights demonstrations in Sydney and when the police tore down the Aboriginal Embassy in front of Parliament House in Canberra Dark juxtaposes this violent struggle with images taken from a tourist slide of an old Aboriginal warrior imprisoned in his mind in his own country As an immigrant to Australia Id understood what it feels like to be a stranger and had experienced hurtful comments and prejudice bloody German So I thought this is funny these people have been here for donkeys years and they to go out in the streets to fight for their own land I used various mechanisms to let this injustice this anger outin particular zooming through a comb onto the image of the old warriorletting his emotion stream out through the bars Paul Winkler