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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
- 1997Warm Strangers
- 1997Journey
- 1998Tears
- 1999Wind
- 2000Dust
- 2002Beneath Clouds
- 2005Yellow Fella
- 2006Shifting Shelter 3
- 2006Aunty Connie
- 2007A Sister's Love
- 2008Fire Talker
- 2009Dreamland
- 2011Shifting Shelter 4
- 2011Toomelah
- 2013Mystery Road
- 2016Goldstone
- 2023Limbo
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