Director Trevor Graham
Country/Production Australia
Release 1994
Length 58 mins
Format Colour, B&W / DVD or VHS / PAL / All region
Location Australia / Pacific
Ethnic Group Yanyuwa
Prizes/Commendations Winner of the (RAI) Basil Wright Film Prize 1996
Order No RAI-200.246
Sale Info See Film Prices General Collection
Hire Info See Film and Video Hire
December 1942: US bomber ‘Little Eva’ was returning to base after a bombing raid over New Guinea. It hit a storm and crashed at Moonlight Creek in Australia’s far north. Aeroplane Dance dramatises the Americans’ struggle to survive in an unfamiliar land, a place they experienced as hostile, and brings together the Americans’ and Yanyuwa peoples’ tales of war, survival, story-telling and the creation of legends.
