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Shifting Sands – My Bed Your Bed (1998)

play May contain names, images or voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people
clip Startled away

This clip chosen to be G

Clip description

Della (Ursula Yovich) sits on the floor next to a guitar. Alvin (Trevor Jamieson) comes home, and quietly attempts to get on the swag with his promise wife. He climbs onto the swag beside her ever so carefully. Della stirs, startling Alvin, who disappears from the room with his guitar.

Curator’s notes

The contemporary idea of a promise marriage being played out as a romantic comedy is a beautiful concept. The shy evasive promise husband, who attempts to avoid the advances of his wife to be, is essentially the story of two strangers attempting to get to know each other.