KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE
Day in the Life, 2020
31 minutes 42 seconds

Day in the Life (2020) charts an ordinary day in a small rural Indigenous community in which nothing quite works and the authoritative hand of the government is a always constant, shadowy presence over the community. The film comprises five satirically titled vignettes—“Breakfast,” “Play Break,” “Lunch Run,” “Cocktail Hour,” “Takeout Dinner”—illustrating the ways in which the community’s everyday lives are shaped by external influences and constraints and by their insistence on going forward with the ancestors."In the work, the perspectives of the Karrabing cast are always central, creating an empathetic viewing experience that flips mainstream assumptions about Aboriginal communities on their head." Matariki Williams, Art in America.Premiere: International Film Festival Rotterdam, 2020, with support from “Artists in Cinema” Commission & Projections, Tyneside Cinema CommissionAwards: Special Mention, Film Victoria Erwin Rado Award for Best Australian Short Film, Melbourne International Film Festival, 2020.