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The darkside / Screen Australia and the Australian Broadcasting Corporation ; Adelaide Film Festival and Scarlett Pictures present ; director, Warwick Thornton ; producer, Kath Shelper ; [stories by Delise Moore, Lesigo Zaro, Sharon Cole, and others].
Penn Museum Library - Media DVD BF1472.A8 D37 2016
Available
- Format:
- Video
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ghost stories, Australian.
- Ghosts--Australia.
- Ghosts.
- Aboriginal Australians--Religious life.
- Aboriginal Australians.
- Religious life.
- Australia.
- Genre:
- Documentary films.
- Experimental films.
- Video recordings.
- Physical Description:
- 1 videodisc (91 minutes) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
- 4 3/4 in.
- Manufacture:
- Paris, France : Memento Films International, [2016?]
- Other Title:
- Dark side
- Language Note:
- In English with subtitles in English.
- System Details:
- DVD-R, NTSC, all region; widescreen (2.40:1 aspect ratio) presentation.
- digital optical
- widescreen (2.40:1)
- NTSC
- video file DVD-R video all regions
- Summary:
- "From ... Warwick Thornton, comes a collection of poignant, sad, funny and absurd true ghost tales from across Australia which he brings to life with some of Australia's most celebrated actors as the storytellers. In April of 2012, Warwick put out a call around Australia for people to come forward with their Indigenous ghost stories. There was only one rule - that the stories must be firsthand. The Koori grapevine went to work and before long he was inundated with ghostly stories from both black and white people from almost every corner of the country. Some people had more than one story, so from 120 people he heard over 150 stories. "Aboriginal people live on the threshold of two dimensions. One is a world of everyday reality, and the other a world of spirits, demons and entities. We can live an ordinary life with dead ancestors and demons all vying for space around us. Although we might seem stoic and complacent, with the clash of these two worlds the reality is we are scared shitless. When I embarked on this journey to the other side, I imagined finding a whole bunch of scary as hell ghost stories - but what I ended up finding was a beautiful collection of poignant stories about family and connection," says Thornton."--Anon.
- Participant:
- Performers, Lynette Narkle, Merwez Whaleboat, Sharon Cole [and others].
- Credits:
- Director of photography, Warwick Thornton; editor, Roland Gallois; singers, Miah Madden, Merwez Whaleboat [and others].
- Notes:
- Videodisc release of the motion picture produced in 2013.
- There are a number of gaps of one to three seconds in the audio and video of this pressing, which apparently is the reason for the subtitles.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the Christine Hikawa Fund.
- OCLC:
- 984991902
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