Our Bush Wedding

Director: Adrian Wills
Duration: 52’
Country: Australia
Year of Production: 2007

Gordon Syron, an Australian Aborigine, killed a man in defence of his family’s land. While in the slammer, Gordon learnt to paint. When he was released in the early 70’s, Elaine Pelot, an American photographer, showed up on assignment to photograph his overtly political paintings. They became good friends, and eventually Elaine became Gordon’s agent.

Both married with children, their friendship deepened when Elaine’s husband asked Gordon to accompany her on her photography sessions. Co-teaching workshops for disadvantaged indigenous kids followed soon after. During one of the workshops, late at night in a motel room, after sharing a bottle of Bacardi, Elaine let it slip that she was sexually attracted to him.

Now in their early 60's, Gordon has finally proposed, and they’ve decided to elope and get married without their kids, but first they have to agree on what kind of marriage whether Christian, Jewish or a Dreamtime Aboriginal ceremony. With only weeks to go and no celebrant in sight Gordon gets deathly ill and it looks like the marriage plans will be put on permanent hold.