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Shadow Panic (1989)

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Nightmare

This clip chosen to be PG

Clip description

The three characters – the Redhead (Robin Laurie), the Investigator (Rose Wanganeen) and the Hothead (Kaarin Fairfax) – each feel the threat from world events outside themselves.

Curator’s notes

This clip shows how the use of sound and image can produce powerful feelings of fear and vulnerability contextualised in a chaotic violent world. White doves symbolise peace in panic, the Redhead runs away naked, the Investigator realises the threat and the Hothead’s own environment starts to go crazy until she calls 'no’.