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Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Djunawunya, Arnhem Land, east of the town of Maningrida, July 1978. Frank Gurrmanamana is responsible for preparing the final mortuary ceremonies for his brother who had died six years before. The brother had been buried in Maningrida, but now his remains are being brought back to his home country. Central to the ceremonies is Harry Diama, the senior blood-relative of the deceased man, but Harry lives in Maningrida and is pre-occupied with a pending...
2) Yorky Billy
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
At Ngurgdu (Spring Peak) in the Northern Territory, an area soon to be irrevocably disturbed by uranium mining, 80-year-old William Alderson (known as "Yorky Billy") reflects on his life in the outback. His father was an Englishman from Yorkshire (hence Yorky's nickname) who spent 45 years in Australia and "tried everything" - working as a prospector, a railway worker, drover and buffalo hunter. After only 3 years of school, his only son, Yorky, worked...
3) Takeover
Series
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
One of the major works produced by the AIAS Film Unit, this documentary observes the profound effect on an Aboriginal community of political and bureaucratic decisions made far away. Although specific to time and place, the film is timeless and universal in its observations of a conflict between an Indigenous minority and a powerful government. The film presents an insiders view of events that followed an announcement made without warning on 13 March...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Three horsemen is one of several films that the MacDougalls made in and around Aurukun in the far north of Queensland. It is a deeply moving portrait of three generations of Aboriginal stockmen at Ti-Tree station, 80km south of Aurukun, a former cattle out-station of Aurukun Mission and now a settlement for people who regard Ti-Tree as their home. Bob Massey Pootchemunka, about 75 years old, has lived and worked all his life on cattle stations. He...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This important documentary is intended as an introduction to the nature of this special legislation and its effects on Aborigines in the south west of Western Australia during the period 1905-1936. Both the original and the revised versions are available. Writer/researcher: Anna Haebich. Published by Institute of Applied Aboriginal Studies, Edith Cowan University.
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
This program is intended as an introduction to Aboriginal culture, the experience of invasion and colonisation and the ongoing struggle of Aboriginal people to maintain their identity as the first people of this land. Against a backdrop of the account of the Western Australian 1905 Act, Leisha Eatts, Walter Eatts and Caron Farmer tell how this Act has shaped their lives and indicate how it reverberates still in the daily experience of Aboriginal people....
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
When Geraldine Kawanka's husband died, she and her children moved out of their house. In earlier times, their bark house would have been burnt, but today a "house-opening" ceremony has evolved, creatively mingling Aboriginal, Torres Strait, and European traditions in order to deal with death in the context of new living patterns in the Aboriginal community of Aurukun, on the Cape York Peninsula, north Queensland. This beautifully observed documentary...
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