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Loved Up – The Dream of Love (2005)

play May contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
clip Childhood remembered education content clip 1, 3

This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

Black-and-white photos of the parents of the filmmaker, Colin and Gloria Johnston. Both parents recount their childhood, and when they first met.

Curator’s notes

This clip is an insight into the emotional interaction between two people now elderly. While Colin is Indigenous and Gloria non-Indigenous, the recount of the role love played in a different era seems to be unsentimental. Although, this aspect of the dialogue could be how a couple who have spent the majority of their life together express themselves.