Come out fighting

A young Aboriginal boxer is taken up by University students and finds it hard to adjust entering their bourgeois white world. This short is ragged and rough around the edges but it offers a rivetting glimpse into black and white relations in the early seventies, as well as some wonderful realistic sequences set in inner-city boxing gyms.

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Credits

director

Nigel Buesst

creator

Nigel Buesst

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1973

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

B1003948

Language

English

Subject categories

Amateur & Student Films

Amateur & Student Films → Student films - Australia

Short films

Short films → Short films - Australia

Holdings

Digital Betacam [PAL]; Sub-master

VHS [PAL]; Reference - timecoded

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Australia, 1973

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