From Sand to Celluloid – Payback

Clip 1: Tomorrow payback

2 min 38 sec

Taken from the short film From Sand to Celluloid – Payback (1996)

Original title classification not known – this clip chosen to be G

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Curator’s clip description

It is lockdown in the jail cells. The light falls across inmate Paddy (George Djilaynga) sitting on his bed and singing begins. Paddy looks out through the jail windows searching for the source. A spirit man (Charlie Matjiwi) walks down the corridor of the jail, towards the inmate’s cell. The spirit man enters the jail cell and tells the inmate tomorrow is the day for payback. Paddy clings to the wall, afraid.

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