, which can be sampled at a free screening at 7pm on December 9 at the Illawarra Performing Arts Centre. This 55-minute movie has form. It was commissioned by the Australian Centre for the Moving Image with a grant of $100,000 from the Ian Potter Foundation. But when the patrons saw the final product, they hastened to dissociate themselves. The artists, Dan and Dominique Angeloro, said representatives of the trust accused the film of being “un-Australian”.
Hoda Afshar has a photo of a man and a woman dressed in elaborate Middle Eastern costumes, looking distractedly at a table laden with slices of white bread daubed in Vegemite., spells out the work’s title in large letters made from items of Aboriginal kitsch once sold in gift shops. We’ve forgotten how common it was to snuff out a cigarette in an ashtray decorated with an ornamental Aborigine.
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