THE TESTIMONIAL

“We don’t tell stories about the boogeyman any more. We tell ghost stories about the policeman taking us Blackfullas away. The anger I’ve got to live with every day — I can’t see him, hold him, speak to him. Justice mate? We don’t know what it is. We never got it.”

Mark Mason Snr was a deeply loved and respected Gomeroi man. In 2010, the police shot Mark twice at close range in a small home in Collarenebri, NSW.

Since 2010 the police have denied the Mason family truth, justice and healing. An important part of this film is that viewers never get to see Mark’s face as his children tell the story. This is a creative decision to reflect the police’s erasure of the moments that led to Mark’s death — forever distorting the memory of their father.

Mark Mason Snr’s story is told by his children to reflect the police’s erasure of the moments leading to the fatal shooting.

Mark mason SNR.

“We don’t tell stories about the boogeyman any more. We tell ghost stories about the policeman taking us Blackfullas away. The anger I’ve got to live with every day — I can’t see him, hold him, speak to him. Justice mate? We don’t know what it is. We never got it.”

Mark mason SNR.