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Issue Details: First known date: 2005... 2005 Plains Empty
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'Sam has recently moved to an isolated mining camp with her man. While he is at work on the minefields Sam realises that she is not alone.' Source: www.nfsa.afc.gov.au (Sighted 18/6/08)

Production Details

  • Produced by Kath Shelper

Publication Details of Only Known VersionEarliest 2 Known Versions of

    • Scarlett Films , 2005 .
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      Extent: 27 min.p.
      Series: form y separately published work icon Dramatically Black Australian Film Commission. Indigenous Branch (publisher), Australian Film Commission. Indigenous Branch , 2005 Z1589362 2005 series - publisher film/TV 'Films developed and produced in association with the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission.' (Source: Dreaming in Motion: Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers, 2007, p68)

Works about this Work

Con-Juring the Phantom : Spectral Memories Katrin Althans , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010; (p. 116-146)
Spectrality in Indigenous Women’s Cinema: Tracey Moffatt and Beck Cole Gerry Turcotte , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 43 no. 1 2008; (p. 7-21)
This paper addresses two recent Aboriginal ghost stories produced by Aboriginal film-makers Tracey Moffatt (beDevil) and Beck Cole (Plains Empty), in order to examine the relationship of these films to a type of spectral rewriting of the Australian nation state. This paper examines the role of spectrality as a revisionist process that exorcizes, but also celebrates, the ghosts that underpin and/or undermine narratives of belonging and place and investigates the dynamic potential of Indigenous film, not so much as a device that eradicates colonial encounters and their postcolonial legacy, but as texts that unsettle and contest, that empower and initiate debate by way of dismantling, or at least diminishing, dominant representations of Indigenous identities.
Beck Cole Australian Film Commission , 2007 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Dreaming in Motion : Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers 2007; (p. 26-27)
Contains Beck Cole's short film biography, her filmography, details on the films: Plains Empty and Wirriya - Small Boy, and a small commentary by Cole on filmmaking.
Beck Cole Australian Film Commission , 2007 single work non-fiction
— Appears in: Dreaming in Motion : Celebrating Australia's Indigenous Filmmakers 2007; (p. 26-27)
Contains Beck Cole's short film biography, her filmography, details on the films: Plains Empty and Wirriya - Small Boy, and a small commentary by Cole on filmmaking.
Spectrality in Indigenous Women’s Cinema: Tracey Moffatt and Beck Cole Gerry Turcotte , 2008 single work criticism
— Appears in: The Journal of Commonwealth Literature , vol. 43 no. 1 2008; (p. 7-21)
This paper addresses two recent Aboriginal ghost stories produced by Aboriginal film-makers Tracey Moffatt (beDevil) and Beck Cole (Plains Empty), in order to examine the relationship of these films to a type of spectral rewriting of the Australian nation state. This paper examines the role of spectrality as a revisionist process that exorcizes, but also celebrates, the ghosts that underpin and/or undermine narratives of belonging and place and investigates the dynamic potential of Indigenous film, not so much as a device that eradicates colonial encounters and their postcolonial legacy, but as texts that unsettle and contest, that empower and initiate debate by way of dismantling, or at least diminishing, dominant representations of Indigenous identities.
Con-Juring the Phantom : Spectral Memories Katrin Althans , 2010 single work criticism
— Appears in: Darkness Subverted : Aboriginal Gothic in Black Australian Literature and Film 2010; (p. 116-146)
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