âUsing footage shot during the first Aboriginal Land Rights demonstrations in Sydney, and when the police tore down the âAboriginal Embassyâ in front of Parliament House in Canberra, Dark juxtaposes this violent struggle with images (taken from a tourist slide) of an old Aboriginal warrior imprisoned, in his mind, in his own country. As an immigrant to Australia Iâd understood what it feels like to be a stranger, and had experienced hurtful comments and prejudice (âŠâbloody Germanâ). So I thought, this is funny, these people have been here for donkeyâs years, and they to go out in the streets to fight for their own land. I used various mechanisms to let this injustice, this anger outâŠin particular, zooming through a comb onto the image of the old warriorâŠletting his emotion stream out through the bars.â (Paul Winkler)
