The Lake of Scars is as much a portrait of a hidden facet of Australian history and environment as it is a musing on what reconciliation can look like in Australia. While exploring the beautiful, mysterious scarred trees, middens and stone scatters left at the remarkable Lake Boort in Victoria, we meet the people, Aboriginal and non-Aboriginal, who are working against the clock, and against the odds, to preserve what they can of the site. With organic relics at its heart – hundred-year-old scarred and dying trees – the film is supported by astounding nineteenth century photography and the story of a unique early relationship between Aboriginal people and white settlers in the area. Working closely with the local community and the Yung Balug who call the lake home, with the backdrop of Treaty negotiations and repatriation ceremonies, the film is a musing on the passing of time while asking how, and why, Australians might want to protect and preserve significant sites.

Taken from Australian/British documentary-maker Bill Code.

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