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Matilda (Amy Terelinck) and her father (Geoff Morrell) are caught a long way from home by a fierce dust storm. It overturns their truck and kills a lot of sheep, but they survive unhurt. Matilda’s mother Ellen (Susan Lyons) is almost killed by flying debris at the homestead.
Curator’s notes
A very well constructed sequence, with a convincingly terrifying dust storm. The film has an effective sense of nature’s unpredictable cruelty, and the hardship that farmers must endure, although it avoids the question of whether this land should be used at all for sheep farming.
