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A huge space rocket test – Blue Streak – was to be fired in May 1964 at their home in the dry Percival Lakes. The authorities sent in patrol officers to evacuate anyone living there to protect them from rocket debris. They discover a group of aboriginal women and children, still living traditionally, without any contact or knowledge of modern Australia. Yuwali, a 17-year old girl at the time gives a riveting account of their first encounter with the ‘devilmen’ in the ‘rocks that move’ (four wheel drives) and how their lives would change forever. They were given clothes (which they found useless), drank Cola (which they found tasteless) and were forced to leave their pet, a dingo, behind. The ‘first contact’ experience was caught on film by the Australians. The Martu community now seems accustomed to its new way of life: watching archive footage of their people clad in nothing but a belt leaves them in stitches.



Vertoond op editie(s) 2010
Screened at edition(s) 2010

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Directed by Bentley Dean & Martin Butler
Australiл
2009 78 min.
Engels
No subtitles

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International selection

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Bentley Dean & Martin Butler

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Bentley Dean, Martin Butler

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Contact Films

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