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Terra Nullius (1992)
Directed by Anne Pratten
Drama · 21m
Loosely based on the filmmaker's personal experience, "Terra Nullius" is an impressionistic account of an eight year old Koori girl, Alice, growing up in a white adoptive family which denies her Aboriginality. The film examines how unacknowledged shame and fear passes from one generation to the next, from one culture to another. The last scene depicts a silent meeting between the young Alice and the adult Alice. In order to reclaim her life, Alice decides she must confront the pain and confusion of her childhood.
Cast
Wendy Playfair
Crew
- Director
- Anne Pratten
- Writer
- Anne Pratten
- Director of Photography
- Jackie Farkas
- Original Music Composer
- Andrew Lancaster, Felicity Fox
- Editor
- Anne Pratten
- Producer
- Alison Wotherspoon, Anne Pratten
Details
- Release date
- 1992-01-01
- Runtime
- 21m
- Genres
- Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Australia
- Production
- Ronin Films, Australian Film Television and Radio School