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Clip description
After the rape and murder of one of their new 'tribe’, the women paint their bodies in grief and perform burial rites.
Curator’s notes
The scene is a strange blend of eco- and gender politics – expressing a strong neo-primitive urge, and a sense of identification with Aboriginal rituals. A few years later, similar scenes can be found in Mad Max II, another neo-primitive film, except that it deals with a tribe of children, left parentless after a nuclear apocalypse.
