Nov 15 2022
Rabbit-Proof Fence – smARTfilms: Indigenous Filmmakers

Rabbit-Proof Fence – smARTfilms: Indigenous Filmmakers

at Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

(2002) PG 1h34m

Western Australia, 1931. Government policy includes taking half-white, half-Aboriginal children from their Aboriginal mothers and sending them a thousand miles away to what amounts to indentured servitude, “to save them from themselves.” Molly, Daisy, and Grace (two sisters and a cousin who are fourteen, ten, and eight) arrive at their Gulag (labor camp) and promptly escape, under Molly’s lead. For several days they walk north, following a fence that keeps rabbits from settlements, eluding a native tracker and the regional constabulary. Their pursuers take orders from the government’s “Chief Protector of Aborigines”, A.O. Neville, blinded by Anglo-Christian certainty, evolutionary world view, and conventional wisdom. Can the girls survive?
SHOWINGS
smARTfilm series offers two film showings each day!

Matinee: 2pm
Evening: 7pm

Dates & Times

2022/11/15 - 2022/11/15

Location Info

Bainbridge Island Museum of Art

550 Winslow Way East, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110

Parking Info

Parking is available and free to our visitors.