First Seen: Milk by Dylan Van Den Berg

Online event hosted via Zoom.

Spanning two centuries, Milk tracks a conversation between three Aboriginal ancestors on the verge of life-changing moments: an old woman is dying, clutching the stone that should have killed her sealer husband; a middle-aged woman curls her hair in preparation for another date; a young man grapples with the past before plunging headfirst into an uncertain future. Stranded together on an metaphysial Flinders Island off the coast of Tasmania, they attempt to reconcile what came before the onslaught of colonisation with what’s yet to come. Do we own the stories of our ancestors? And does the passage of time undermine a connection to Country? Milk is a story of longing, connection and the ghosts of the past.

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