Wrong Side Of The RoadWrong Side Of The Road
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Downloadable Video, 1983
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Current format, Downloadable Video, 1983, , Available. Offered in 0 more formatsWhat's it like to be young and black in Australia? Wrong Side of the Road introduces two black, rock reggae bands - No Fixed Address and Us Mob - and follows them through two days on the road The bands' members play themselves, acting out incidents from their own lives and those of their friends. From the opening scenes when police break up a performance by the two groups and arrest one band member, the film is punctuated by run-ins between the young musicians and white authority.. To white viewers such incidents seem unreal, but the players, who helped write the script, insist that these events are typical for Black Australians. However, Wrong Side of the Road doesn't dwell on injustices. It shows a gutsy people standing up to a racist society, and also shows some of the features of black society that white Australians miss out on, especially the closeness of the black community. When the bands play, everyone, from young children to their grandparents, dances to their music. Wrong Side of the Road, the first ever Australian feature starring an all-Indigenous cast, is both inspiring and disturbing, and as relevant now as the day it was made..
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- Ned Lander, 1983., [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2016.
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