Wap

Wap

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Status

Released

Release Date

Jan 1, 2012

Runtime

0h 10m

Original Title

Wap

Director

Dirk de Bruyn

Description

WAP stands for White Australia Policy, a racist policy which limited migration into Australia into the nineteen fifties. This policy can be read as a marker of the guilt surrounding the Aboriginal genocide that had blotted white settlement of Australia since its inception. This film re-frames historic material to allow the voices of the deferred and dispossessed to speak their trauma, speaking often through the bodies and voices of the oppressor to reveal the unspoken truth.