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The sand that ate the sea

2020 / 30 min
Short film, photo series, installation
Drama

The sand that ate the sea is a film and photographic work created over three years with the South Australian opal mining town of Andamooka.

The South Australian desert is a mystical place. Millennia ago it was an ocean, and opalised aquatic dinosaur fossils are still found in the dirt there today. It is home to an arid land and deep, old magic. A place of endless sweeping salt flats and undulating flat red earth.

Andamooka is where the frontier is, and some of the last of the great Australian frontiersmen call it home. The land is a stolen land, and a cursed land, and the magic of that wound has a unique way of working on the people who have come there new, and those who came before.

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