Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Promise husband
1998
Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Promise husband
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
In a night-time ceremony around a fire, a small girl is told she is promised to a husband. In the present day, the girl now a young woman soon to be married, Della (Urshula Yovich) packs her gear and climbs into a truck and reverses a few hundred metres to her new homestead.
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
In a night-time ceremony around a fire, a small girl is told she is promised to a husband. In the present day, the girl now a young woman soon to be married, Della (Urshula Yovich) packs her gear and climbs into a truck and reverses a few hundred metres to her new homestead.
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
A wonderful comedic introduction to the modern day version of the ancient ritual of promise marriage within Indigenous communities.
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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