The Habits Of New Norcia (2000)

Özet

The stories in The Habits of New Norcia are told by former Western Australian Aboriginal child 'inmates' of the New Norcia Benedictine Mission who were separated from their families in the 1940s, 50s and 60s and confined in this "orphanage without orphans". In recent decades the New Norcia Monastery has been packaged as one of the State's leading cultural tourist attractions. "A unique blend of Spanish architecture, European art treasures and pioneer history," "Monks, Music & Mystery," "New Norcia, Australia's only monastic town," the brochures announce. Aboriginal testimony in the film challenges this revised and sanitised history. The documentary provides damming evidence of the continuing violence of the Mission against its victims by deliberate omission of their experience in the New Norcia museum, guided tours, art gallery and promotions — an omission that represents a cruel and wounding cover-up.

Oyuncular

• Harry Taylor

  Narrator

• Rita Pasqualini

  (voice)

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  Geoff Kelso

  (voice)

• Geoff Gibbs

  (voice)

• Nicole Bartlett

  (voice)

Ekip

Yönetmen

Frank Rijavec

Senaryo

Frank Rijavec, Harry Taylor

Yapımcı

Carmelo Musca

Görüntü yönetmeni

James Kerr

Müzik

David Milroy

Kurgu

Frank Rijavec