Plains Empty

Beck Cole
Australia 2004
26 min

When Sam and her husband move to a remote mining camp in the desolate outback, she finds herself struggling to cope with the lonely existence. Eventually, she questions whether she is really alone. (Sydney Opera House)

"Plains Empty" takes the old standard of a restless spirit and infuses new life into it by setting the action in a deserted outback mining camp. When a woman is left alone on the edge of nowhere, she begins seeing visions of a ghostly young girl and starts seeking more information about her identity. Punctuated with stunning landscape shots that emphasize our protagonist's sense of isolation, Cole has put together a haunting and effective story. (Pete Vonder Haar, Film Threat)

Beck has always been fascinated by ghosts and would often go to Adelaide for "the big smoke". On one of those trips which she did with an aunty, the aunty suddenly saw a little girl by the road as they were passing Coober Pedy.

So they turned their vehicle and drove back but instead of the girl found a little boy. They took him back to Coober Pedy where many Aborigines were waving down all trucks because they had lost the boy.

Cast	Ngaire Pigram Gerard Kennedy Kerry Naylon Tina Bursill Josef Ber
Release dates	May 27th, 2005 - Australia Australian premiere at the Indigenous Arts Festival, Sydney.
Video/DVD Release Date	not available
Awards	not available
Rating	M - mature audience (my rating)
Language level	medium (slang language)
Distributor	not available
Soundtrack	Liam Egan
Genre	Drama
Notes	Other films by Beck Cole include "Flat" (2003), "Wirriya: Small Boy" (2004) and "Skin Sisters".