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Tommy tells us about the massacre on the plains, Aboriginal peoples executed by stockmen. This is woven into his recount off his experience as a young boy – being called 'white boy’ by the blackfellas, and 'black boy’ by the white fellas.
Curator’s notes
A road illuminated by car headlights in the thick of night is haunting. Tommy Lewis’s voice-over tells of the story about the massacre of family members, which he has just heard for the first time. We get the sense that Tommy’s questions about his father is one that taps into issues of accountability and reciprocity, as he wonders about what kind of man his father was. Lewis’s identity seems to be imbued with the struggle between white and black cultures for moral authority, and Tommy looks inward to evoke answers to these beguiling questions.
