Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Promise husband

Title:

Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Promise husband

NFSA ID

370994

Year

1998

Warnings

WARNING: Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander viewers are advised that the following program may contain images and/or audio of deceased persons

Summary

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

CURATOR'S NOTES

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