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.
Where You From? : 'Terra Nullius,'
Invasion of the Land, Invasion of the Body
1995
Perth
:
Centre for Research in Culture and Communication (Murdoch University)
,
1996
Z1612257
1995
single work
criticism
A published version of a talk given at Murdocch University in 1995, this paper frames the discussion on Anne Pratten's 1992 short film Terror Nullius, with regard to the social and historical screen representations of indigenous peoples by white Australians. As leseur notes, 'past (and some contemporary) images of Aboriginal Australia have not been altogether favourable. Mainstream film and photographic practice has mythologised and stereotyped Aboriginality in contradictory and ambivalent ways... [and that] Pratten's Terra Nullius exposes the tricks of the Australian colonial family.
Where You From? : 'Terra Nullius,'
Invasion of the Land, Invasion of the Body
1995
Perth
:
Centre for Research in Culture and Communication (Murdoch University)
,
1996
Z1612257
1995
single work
criticism
A published version of a talk given at Murdocch University in 1995, this paper frames the discussion on Anne Pratten's 1992 short film Terror Nullius, with regard to the social and historical screen representations of indigenous peoples by white Australians. As leseur notes, 'past (and some contemporary) images of Aboriginal Australia have not been altogether favourable. Mainstream film and photographic practice has mythologised and stereotyped Aboriginality in contradictory and ambivalent ways... [and that] Pratten's Terra Nullius exposes the tricks of the Australian colonial family.
