Day in the Life, 2020

One of the Karrabing's most stirring and direct films, Day in the Life depicts obstacles encountered across four points of their day. A multilayered hip-hop soundscape sees helpless statements by white media make way for the Karrabing's ultimately empowering words of resistance.

The “Day in the Life” highlighted by the Karrabing Film Collective is a day in the life of disgusting and repetitive behaviour displayed by the Australian Government. Day in and day out, it’s a crush of lies where “nobody really cares and somebody’s making money”. Aboriginal disadvantage is the central factor. It’s deplorable that people have been ripped off in remote communities for many, many years; the money not spent on Aboriginal communities is being siphoned off and spent on non-Indigenous communities. This is disgusting and it has to stop. First Peoples first. – Aaron Pedersen, MIFF 2020 Jury Statement

Cast and crew

Premiere:

International Film Festival Rotterdam 2020, with support from Projections, Tyneside Cinema Commission & Rotterdam Projects “Artists in Cinema.”

Awards:

Special Mention, Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2020

Links and talks

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