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Apart from informing us that the pisco sour is a drink, this tape also tells us a thing or two about the period when pioneers were gradually conquering the Australian outback. Callas shows how hard that life was, a life only fit for heroes, worth two ordinary mortals. It's a nice story too about the sturdy farm wagons, able to cover in a day some fifty miles, which is till to this day the distance between two settlements in those parts. The wheels would last around forty years, but the brake-blocks wore out faster in hilly terrain. This description may suggest unadulterated nostalgia, but Callas argues that memories make one place interchangeable with another: they are symbolic small-change of social intercourse among the residents of Sydney, who look out from their windows to the green horizon.
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Erik Daams
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Scenario: John Yeadon, Camera, editing and sound: Stephen Partridge, With: John Yeadon
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