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Crossing Tracks - Wind: Bush walk
Title:
Crossing Tracks - Wind: Bush walk
NFSA ID
601505
Year
1999
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
A rugged bush. Bare feet and horses hooves. A finger coyly samples what appears to be a drop of blood on a leaf. The two men, one walking and one on a horse, come to a stream.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
Lingering shots on leaves, the forest floor set up the idea of place in this short drama.
Wind Synopsis
A short drama about the relationship between a black tracker and his 'boss’. They are tracking an Aboriginal man accused of murder.
Wind Curator's Notes
The story of a black tracker (Bradley Byquar) – an Indigenous man employed by white society to hunt and track fellow Indigenous people – who in the end is a man trapped between two cultures, his loyalties equally divided. Director Ivan Sen’s other films include Tears, Dust, Yellow Fella and Beneath Clouds for which he won the Australian Film Institute (AFI) Award for both Best Director and Best Cinematography.
Other films in the AFC Indigenous Branch drama initiative Crossing Tracks(1999) are Harry’s War and Saturday Night, Sunday Morning.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Production company
Mayfan
Producer
Graeme Isaac
Director
Ivan Sen
Writer
Ivan Sen
Cast
Bradley Byquar, Ralph Cotterill, Steve Dodd
Acknowledgements
Produced with the assistance of the Indigenous Branch of the Australian Film Commission
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.