Servant or Slave
During the Stolen Generations, thousands upon thousands of immature women were removed out of their possessions and pressed into servitude. They were supposedly employed as servants, but having control over their movements, salary and living situations, their lives became an inevitable cycle of rape, abuse and enslavement, with consequences that echo for this afternoon. Recounting the stories of the women -- the three Wenberg sisters, Violet and Rita of five -- Slave or Servant can be just really actually a dominating part of first person testimony to your unacknowledged and dark corner of history. Shot with admirable craft and humanity by documentarian Steven McGregor (Croker Island Exodus, MIFF 2012), Servant or immature is a job of amazing despair and despair, bringing into forceful lifetime that the individual catastrophe of Australia's Indigenous history in the unadorned words of those who lived it.
