Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Pretty song
1998
Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Pretty song
1998
- NFSA ID150M871A
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormSeries
- Duration11 mins
- GenresYouth, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1998
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Hearing music, Della (Urshula Yovich) gets up and finds Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) playing guitar. She watches him before returning to the bedroom. Alvin smiles shyly. No words are said.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
- WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Hearing music, Della (Urshula Yovich) gets up and finds Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) playing guitar. She watches him before returning to the bedroom. Alvin smiles shyly. No words are said.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
- NFSA ID150M871A
- TypeFilm
- MediumMoving Image
- FormSeries
- Duration11 mins
- GenresYouth, Indigenous themes or stories, Indigenous as subject
- Year1998
- Production companyChili FilmsProducerPenny McDonaldSupervising producerGraeme IsaacDirectorErica GlynnWriterErica GlynnCastTrevor Jamieson, Ursula Yovich
The beautiful dramatic tension in this film, a wordless love story, is expressed through the music of the main character, and music becomes central to expressing the inner worlds of these characters.
My Bed Your Bed Synopsis
A young couple promised in marriage to each other as children, now move in together and the courtship truly begins.
My Bed Your Bed Curator's Notes
A short romantic drama from Erica Glynn that uses the power of silence to communicate the tension between two characters who have been promised to each other.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
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