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Film (Excerpts) – 1988
These two people in a remote, rock-strewn, almost a moonscape landscape. Here they had, I mean it was a paradise in some ways, they had a vegetable garden, they had their chooks, they had their eggs, they survived, and yet they had to find gold to return to their families and honour, and they were sort of prisoners. I suppose it's a an obvious symbol, the cricket in the cage, but they're a bit like the crickets, held in a little valley.– Director Leon Narbey talking about the film, in an interview with Russell Campbell in Illusions - 8, 1988, page 7
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