Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Startled away
1998
Shifting Sands - My Bed Your Bed: Startled away
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
Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, startling Alvin, who disappears from the room with his guitar.
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
Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, startling Alvin, who disappears from the room with his guitar.
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 contemporary idea of a promise marriage being played out as a romantic comedy is a beautiful concept. The shy evasive promise husband, who attempts to avoid the advances of his wife to be, is essentially the story of two strangers attempting to get to know each other.
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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