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On Wheels - Road: Flagging a cab
Title:
On Wheels - Road: Flagging a cab
NFSA ID
601525
Year
2000
Warnings
WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons
Lance (Gavin Ritchie) and Murray (Shane O’Mara) try to hail a cab, but with no success. Finally, an idle cab presents itself as an option. Lance and Murray jump in, only to be accosted by the cab driver, who tells them to get out. An altercation between the two young men and the cab driver ends in violence. Summary by Romaine Moreton
Title Synopsis
A drama that depicts one night in Sydney, where chance occurrences and luck collide, taxi cabs become predatory and all roads lead to the beach.
Title Curator's Notes
A film that emphasises the strangeness of the city, where a black fella has a hard time getting a cab, and more often than not, anything can happen. The visual exploratory themes of this film are its strength, and director Catriona McKenzie plays with the visual potency of stylistic exploration.
Other films in the AFC Indigenous Branch drama initiative On Wheels are Dust and Confessions of a Headhunter (both 2000).
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Production company
Virus Media
Producer
Lisa Duff
Director
Catriona McKenzie
Writer
Catriona McKenzie
Cast
Tim Bishop, Mary Johnson, Shane O'Mara, Gavin Ritchie
Acknowledgement
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.