Vanish
Synopsis
Vanish explores the history of the Gamilaroi (or Kamilaroi) people of the Macintyre River being rounded up into the Euraba Reserve on the northern border of NSW in 1912.
In 1927, the Murri people were taken further east to old Toomelah Reserve. Sen interviews three generations of women to get an overview of the reserve experience, bringing us into the 1980s when the Murri people moved into Boggabilla. He probes his subjects with both political and personal questions, drawing out a field of experience.
Aunty Flo recalls at the age of seven being moved onto the reserve, and witnessing a child being taken away in 1930.
Details
- Cast
- Florence Waters
Ruby Waters
Valerie Binger
Craig Haines
The people of Toomelah and Boggabilla - Release dates
- 1998 - Australia
- Rating
- G - general
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Other films by Ivan Sen
- 1997 Journey
- 1997 Warm Strangers
- 1998 Tears
- 1999 Wind
- 2000 Dust
- 2002 Beneath Clouds
- 2005 Yellow Fella
- 2006 Aunty Connie
- 2006 Shifting Shelter 3
- 2007 A Sister’s Love
- 2008 Fire Talker
- 2009 Dreamland
- 2011 Toomelah
- 2011 Shifting Shelter 4
- 2013 Mystery Road
- 2016 Goldstone
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