Anne Pratten Anne Pratten i(A107206 works by)
Gender: Female
Heritage: Aboriginal
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1 1 form y separately published work icon Terra Nullius Anne Pratten , ( dir. Anne Pratten ) North Ryde : Australian Film Television and Radio School , 1992 Z1583878 1992 single work film/TV

The story of Alice, a young Aboriginal girl who absorbs the fear and shame of her adoptive white parents. The film links the denial of Aboriginality to an invasive scene of incest that occurs throughout the film and looks at how untreated fear and shame get passed from one generation to the other. Expressionist images repeatedly disrupt the narrative to haunt us with the denial of racial and sexual abuse -- legacies of colonisation.
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