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Black Talk
(2002)
Black Talk is a short film by Wayne Blair, a Butchala man from Rockhampton, who beautifully tells the story of family fragmentation when a young man Tim (Russell Page) moves to the city and loses contact with his cousin Scott (Laurence Clifford). Blair manages to fit a lot into 12 minutes of drama, weaving Indigenous language through the dialogue, as well as exploring the spiritual aspect of Indigenous culture and community. Black Talk addresses issues of assimilation, and the prospect of an Indigenous city-based person losing community ties when investing in a Western material based lifestyle.