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Dreams and Nightmares

Australian Indigenous Art: Traditional or Modern? Curator Hetti Perkins, daughter of Aboriginal activist Charles Perkins invites us on a personal journey.
Series : Art and Soul | Episode : 2 | Year : 2009 | Total Duration : 55 Minutes | Producer : Bridget Ikin, Jo-anne McGowan
Director : Warwick Thornton |
Very good aerial track over Caterpillar Ranges with bluffs in sunrise/sunset light. Opening titles.
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Access No. 149265 | 29 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Endemol Worldwide Distribution / CAAMA | Colour |
WS art curator Hetti Perkins sitting on rock in pre-dawn desert.
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Access No. 149266 | 15 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Very good WS time-lapse golden ball sun rising in orange sky from behind hill.
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Access No. 149267 | 8 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Blackfella Films | Colour |
CU face of art curator Hetti Perkins in dawn light.
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Access No. 149268 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Very good WS time-lapse golden ball sun rising in orange sky over hills in desert.
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Access No. 149269 | 6 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Blackfella Films | Colour |
Very good WS time-lapse sunrise over Sydney Harbour and Opera House with pink and dark blue sky. WS city skyline with flying foxes in dawn sky, high-rise city buildings still with lights on. Zoom to tops of Aurora Place and Governor Phillip Tower, 1 O'Connell Street and Sydney Tower. Silhouetted flying foxes in treetops against pink and blue dawn sky.
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Access No. 149270 | 29 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access / Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins walking through the Aboriginal Gallery of The Art Gallery of NSW. Perkins talking about Lin Onus sculpture "Fruit Bats", CUs of various components of the sculpture.
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Access No. 149281 | 1 min 28 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Estate Lin Onus | Colour |
Interview with Lin Onus talking about his "Fruit Bats" sculpture. Curator Hetti Perkins talking about sculpture in Art Gallery of NSW. Time-lapse visitors past statue.
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Access No. 149282 | 1 min 21 secs | 1990s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © SBS / Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Zoom into graphic map of Australia to satellite map over Warmun, East Kimberley, WA. Very good WS past flowering grasses and green slope to red hills. WS 4WD along dirt road and through gate with "Texas" sign. CU windmill slowly turning.
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Access No. 149283 | 24 secs | 1990s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Spot Image / Landsat | Colour |
MS colour portrait photograph of Aboriginal artist Rover Thomas wearing cowboy hat.
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Access No. 149284 | 7 secs | 1990s | WA, Australia | © Kevin Kelly Private Collection | Colour |
WS over green and red hills of the East Kimberley, WA. 4WD across grass fields of Warmun. Hetti Perkins talking to Patrick Mung Mung.
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Access No. 149285 | 43 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
WS dark clouds and lightning in dark sky.
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Access No. 149286 | 7 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Time-lapse WS dark clouds and lightning in dark sky.
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Access No. 149287 | 15 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Blackfella Films / Integrated Media | Colour |
Track through devastated streets of Darwin in the aftermath of Cyclone Tracy.
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Access No. 149288 | 12 secs | 1970s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © NFSA / Integrated Media | Colour |
Hetti Perkins to camera seated on rock in creek bed.
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Access No. 149290 | 11 secs | 1970s | Warmun, WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Integrated Media | Colour |
Time-lapse moonlight and clouds seen behind silhouetted tree branches in dark sky.
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Access No. 149291 | 19 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Blackfella Films / AGNSW / Integrated Media | Colour |
WS Hetti Perkins talking to Patrick Mung Mung.
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Access No. 149294 | 6 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / AGNSW / Integrated Media | Colour |
1998 footage of Gurirr Gurirr Ceremony, dancers with boards on shoulders.
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Access No. 149296 | 42 secs | 1990s | Darwin, NT, Australia | © Red Rock Arts | Colour |
"Untitled" Rover Thomas painting.
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Access No. 149297 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Estate Rover Thomas | Colour |
Zoom out from CU of "Cyclone Tracy 1991" Rover Thomas painting to WS.
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Access No. 149298 | 21 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Estate Rover Thomas | Colour |
Archival colour footage of Rover Thomas explaining his painting "Cyclone Tracy" in the National Gallery of Australia.
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Access No. 149299 | 30 secs | 1980s | Australia | © NGA | Colour |
Artist Rover Thomas sitting cross-legged on gallery floor painting canvas.
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Access No. 149300 | 18 secs | 2000s | Australia | © ABC | Colour |
Rover Thomas painting "Two Men Dreaming" circa 1985. Fade to "Country called Red Butte".
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Access No. 149301 | 40 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Estate Rover Thomas | Colour |
Paddy Bedford painting "Untitled (Emu)".
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Access No. 149302 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Estate Paddy Bedford | Colour |
Queenie McKenzie painting "Ridge country on the way to Banana Springs".
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Access No. 149303 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Estate Queenie McKenzie | Colour |
Patrick Mung Mung painting "Ngarrgoorroon Country".
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Access No. 149304 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Patrick Mung Mung | Colour |
Mabel Juli painting "Karrngin Ngarrangkarni", 2006.
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Access No. 149305 | 6 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Mabel Juli | Colour |
VS two eel traps, floating woven sculptural forms by artist Yvonne Koolmatrie, 2008.
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Access No. 149306 | 29 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Yvonne Koolmatrie | Colour |
Light through trees on Murray River bank.
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Access No. 149307 | 2 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Blackfella Films | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph "Fishing on the River Murray at Chowilla Station", 1886.
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Access No. 149308 | 5 secs | 1880s | SA, Australia | © State Library of SA | B&W |
Pink sunrise/sunset light in sky and over Murray River and banks.
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Access No. 149309 | 3 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Blackfella Films | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph "Two Aborigines in a bark canoe by the Riverbank", 1870.
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Access No. 149310 | 5 secs | 1800s | SA, Australia | © State Library of SA | B&W |
Archival B&W photograph "Aboriginal campsite on the River", 1901.
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Access No. 149380 | 4 secs | 1900s | SA, Australia | © State Library of SA | B&W |
Pink sunrise/sunset light in sky and over Murray River and banks.
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Access No. 149381 | 3 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Blackfella Films | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph "Aboriginal children living along the Murray River", 1923.
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Access No. 149382 | 5 secs | 1920s | SA, Australia | © State Library of SA | B&W |
Archival B&W photograph "Aboriginal family group at Wahgunyah", 1910.
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Access No. 149383 | 5 secs | 1920s | SA, Australia | © State Library of SA | B&W |
Murray River and banks filmed from river.
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Access No. 149384 | 3 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Blackfella Films | Colour |
CUs of echidna spines, weaving and VS of "Echidna" sculpture by artist Yvonne Koolmatrie.
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Access No. 149385 | 27 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Yvonne Koolmatrie | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins walking through lush green grassland of the Coorong with artist Yvonne Koolmatrie and her sisters Rhonda and Gay to collect rushes. CU yellow oxalis flowers. VS women gathering rushes.
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Access No. 149387 | 1 min 33 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph "Milerum Basket Making Dec 1937".
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Access No. 149388 | 7 secs | 1930s | SA, Australia | © South Australian Museum | B&W |
Archival B&W footage of Aboriginal man Milerum (Clarence Long) gathering grasses and basket weaving, 1937.
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Access No. 149389 | 28 secs | 1930s | SA, Australia | © South Australian Museum | B&W |
CUs Aboriginal artist Yvonne Koolmatrie demonstrating first stitch in rush weaving, talking to curator Hetti Perkins as she weaves.
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Access No. 149390 | 1 min | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Aboriginal artist Yvonne Koolmatrie and her sisters Gay and Rhonda entering Aboriginal gallery of South Australian Museum with curator Hetti Perkins. VS of the women looking at displayed baskets. Koolmatrie inspecting baskets on table with gloved hands.
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Access No. 149391 | 1 min 15 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/South Australian Museum | Colour |
Colour photograph of Aboriginal artist Yvonne Koolmatrie in Venice, feeding pigeons. Artists representing Australia in Venice Biennale posed outside Australian pavilion. Photographs of Koolmatrie's woven sculptures "Fluent" hanging in gallery.
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Access No. 149392 | 16 secs | 1990s | Venice, Italy | © Judy Watson | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins looking at Aboriginal artist Yvonne Koolmartre's woven aircraft sculpture in the "Floating Life" exhibition, Queensland Gallery of Modern Art (GOMA). VS woven hot air balloon and other forms.
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Access No. 149393 | 29 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / GOMA | Colour |
CUs sunshine seen through weaving of Aboriginal artist Yvonne Koolmatrie. Art curator Hetti Perkins walking through storage rooms of Art Gallery of New South Wales. Quotes from Oodgeroo Noonuccal's poem. Perkins pulling out storage racks with various paintings. VS Aboriginal paintings on racks.
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Access No. 149394 | 1 min 22 secs | 2000s | SA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Petrina Walker | Colour |
Mr Giles, Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles Tjapaltjarri (now deceased), sitting on gallery floor in front of painting "Kaliangku", 2005. MS interview with Mr Giles about his life and about his paintings. VS art curator Hetti Perkins pushing Mr Giles in wheelchair and his wife around Aboriginal gallery. Mr Giles stopped in front of painting by Ronnie Tjampitjimpa (Untitled - Tingari motifs and snake, 1997) and singing about the country it represents.
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Access No. 149395 | 2 mins 38 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Kayili Artists / Aboriginal Artist Agency | Colour |
Zoom in to graphic map of Bathurst and Melville Islands of Northern Territory.
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Access No. 149397 | 12 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Kayili Artists / Aboriginal Artist Agency | Colour |
Colour footage of Tiwi men performing dance.
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Access No. 149398 | 13 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins greeting Pedro Wonaemirri in Jilamara Arts centre. Perkins and Wonaemirri walking past Tiwi art stacked against walls to explain his painting on wall. CUs Wonaemirri demonstrating comb tool used on painting "Jilamara" and VS other paintings by Tim Cook and Janice Murray. VS Wonaemirri's Pukumani poles on ground including "Tutini Pole".
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Access No. 149399 | 1 min 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Pedro Wonaemirri | Colour |
Colour footage of Tiwi men performing dance. Tutini (poles) for the Pukumani (funeral ceremony) shown.
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Access No. 149400 | 18 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Tutini (poles) for Pukumani (funeral ceremonies) in Art Gallery of New South Wales. Art curator Hetti Perkins talking about them to camera. Tutini by Laurie Nelson Mungatopi, Bob One Apuatimi, Jack Yarunga, Don Burakmadjua, Charlie Quiet Kwangdini and unknown Artist.
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Access No. 149401 | 1 min 4 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Jilmara Arts / Art Gallery of NSW | Colour |
Pedro Wonaemirri speaking to funeral poles on Tiwi land. Pedro kneeling and touching the ground. Fade to shadow of helicopter on ground. Good aerials over green landscape and snaking river. VS Pedro in helicopter. Helicopter landing on beach, Pedro and curator Hetti Perkins walk on beach and discuss Tiwi legend embodied in the site, Impanari.
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Access No. 149402 | 2 mins 14 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Tilt to time-lapse swelling clouds.
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Access No. 149404 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © ABC / ITN | Colour |
Very good WS of thunderhead storm clouds over water.
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Access No. 149405 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © CAAMA | Colour |
Pedro Wonaemirri's tutini (funeral poles) with CU to Pukunami figure carved on one.
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Access No. 149406 | 16 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Pedro Wonaemirri | Colour |
Group of six tutini by Pedro Wonaemirri for the AGNSW,1999.
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Access No. 149407 | 16 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Pedro Wonaemirri | Colour |
Tutini silhouetted against time-lapse orange sunset light on Tiwi land. Fade to Pedro Wonaemirri with his family with boat on beach. Fade to curator Hetti Perkins walking around The Bungalow (Old Telegraph Station) buildings. VS around inside of old kitchen.
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Access No. 149408 | 1 min 6 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Interview with Charles Perkins.
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Access No. 149409 | 2000s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
B&W archival footage with high shot over buildings and grounds around The Bungalow (Old Telegraph Station) with voice-over of Charles Perkins.
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Access No. 149410 | 7 secs | 1930s | Australia | © ABC / Blackfella Films | B&W |
B&W archival photograph of Charles Perkin's mother Hetti standing with two small boys. Zoom to child in photograph.
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Access No. 149411 | 7 secs | 1930s | Australia | © ABC | B&W |
B&W archival footage of Aboriginal children running out of corrugated iron shed.
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Access No. 149412 | 7 secs | 1930s | NT, Australia | © Strehlow Research Centre | B&W |
Curator Hetti Perkins sitting on bench outside The Bungalow (Old Telegraph Station).
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Access No. 149413 | 13 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
B&W archival footage of Aboriginal children assembled around verandah of The Bungalow (Old Telegraph Station).
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Access No. 149414 | 7 secs | 1930s | NT, Australia | © Strehlow Research Centre | B&W |
B&W archival photograph of Aboriginal children in group shot with Joseph Croft, father of artist Brenda Croft as alter boy on far left. Zoom to Joseph Croft and to alter boy on the other side, Brenda Croft's Uncle Alex.
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Access No. 149415 | 15 secs | 1930s | NT, Australia | © Brenda Croft | B&W |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft seated in Croft's home.
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Access No. 149416 | 8 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Colour photograph of artist Brenda Croft in graduation gown with her father Joseph in suit. Zoom to CU of Joseph.
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Access No. 149417 | 12 secs | 1930s | NT, Australia | © Brenda Croft | B&W |
B&W archival footage of Aboriginal children rolling car tyres containing children crouched in the middle.
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Access No. 149418 | 10 secs | 1930s | NT, Australia | © Strehlow Research Centre | B&W |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft seated in Croft's home.
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Access No. 149419 | 5 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Slow zoom into MS of photograph of Joseph Croft with Charles Perkins posing in front of Aboriginal painting. 1962 B&W wedding photograph of Joe and Dorothy Croft.
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Access No. 149420 | 16 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photographic art work by Brenda Croft "In My Mother's Garden1998" from the series In My Mother's Garden.
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Access No. 149421 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft seated in Croft's home.
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Access No. 149422 | 7 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Photographic art work by Brenda Croft "She Called him Son" 1998 from the series Colour B(l)ind, In My Father's House.
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Access No. 149423 | 7 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photograph of Brenda Croft's father Joseph standing at parking meter "A hostile landscape" from the series "Man About Town", 2003.
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Access No. 149425 | 5 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photograph of Brenda Croft's father Joseph in airport restaurant "Boy from the Bush" from the series "Man About Town", 2003.
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Access No. 149426 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photograph of Brenda Croft's father Joseph standing at runway fencing "Man About Town" from the series "Man About Town", 2003.
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Access No. 149427 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Colour photograph of Brenda Croft's father Joseph standing by cars "Inspection Day", from the series "Man About Town", 2003.
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Access No. 149428 | 4 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft seated in Croft's home.
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Access No. 149429 | 3 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Zoom in to colour photograph of Brenda Croft's father Joseph with two Anglo-Saxon women "Don't Look Now", from the series "Man About Town", 2003.
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Access No. 149430 | 9 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft seated in Croft's home.
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Access No. 149431 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Montage of colour photographs of Brenda Croft's father Joseph playing golf "A Place for Us" and at lookout "Land Locked" from the series "Man About Town", 2003.
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Access No. 149432 | 9 secs | 1950s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft in Croft's home looking at photograph in book depicting Aboriginal people.
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Access No. 149433 | 40 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Photographic art work by Brenda Croft "Don't Go Kissing at the Garden Gate I" 1998 from the series In My Father's House. Detail from "She Called him Son" 1998 from the series Colour B(l)ind, In My Father's House. Zoom to "Bride (She holds no bars)", 2005 from the series Peripheral Vision.
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Access No. 149434 | 13 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins interviewing artist Brenda L. Croft in Croft's home.
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Access No. 149435 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Montage of photographs by Brenda Croft from the series "Strange Fruit", 1994 featuring various Aboriginal women posing as various characters.
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Access No. 149436 | 26 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photograph of Hetti Perkins as "Billie" by Brenda Croft from the series "Strange Fruit", 1994.
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Access No. 149437 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photograph "Zora - clenched fist" by Brenda Croft from the series "Strange Fruit", 1994 featuring various Aboriginal women posing as various characters.
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Access No. 149438 | 3 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Photograph "Wayler" by Brenda Croft from the series "Strange Fruit", 1994 featuring various Aboriginal women posing as various characters.
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Access No. 149439 | 2 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Montage of photographs by Brenda Croft from the series "Strange Fruit", 1994 featuring various Aboriginal women posing as various characters.
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Access No. 149440 | 39 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Montage of various people reciting poem "Strange Recipe" by Romaine Morton to camera.
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Access No. 149441 | 43 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Seymour Films | Colour |
Montage of photographs by Brenda Croft from the series "Strange Fruit", 1994 featuring various Aboriginal women posing as various characters.
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Access No. 149442 | 11 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Brenda Croft | Colour |
Zoom out on painting "Wiradjuri Warrior" by Harry Wedge.
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Access No. 149443 | 24 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Harry Wedge | Colour |
Zoom in on map of Australia to NSW and satellite aerial image over Cowra.
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Access No. 149444 | 7 secs | 1990s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Spot Image / Landsat | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins entering the garden to Harry Wedge's house. MS Perkins interviewing Wedge about growing up in Cowra. CU Perkins showing Wedge his painting ""Adam and Eve Getting Evicted". Zoom in to painting.
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Access No. 149445 | 2 mins 3 secs | 2000s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Harry Wedge | Colour |
Zoom in on painting "Stop and Think", 1993 by Harry Wedge. VS Perkins interviewing Wedge about the symbolism in his paintings. CUs "Stop and Think" paintings parts 2,3,4 and 5. Photographs of Wedge working at Boomalli artists co-operative in the 1990s.
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Access No. 149446 | 2 mins 6 secs | 2000s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Harry Wedge | Colour |
Painting "Captain Cook Con Man", 1991 by Harry Wedge. Zoom out on painting "Not Accepting the Bribe", 1990. VS curator Hetti Perkins watching artist Harry Wedge relief drawing on painting then applying paint. Wedge explaining process to Perkins.
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Access No. 149447 | 1 min 23 secs | 2000s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Harry Wedge | Colour |
Zoom in to B&W photograph of artist Harry Wedge as a 7 year old boy, and posing in 1966 school photograph.
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Access No. 149448 | 17 secs | 1960s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Harry Wedge | B&W |
Very good time-lapse WS orange sunset over undulating landscape with gum tree branch in foreground. LS sunset with rocks in foreground.
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Access No. 149449 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
MS curator artist Harry Wedge talking to curator Hetti Perkins.
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Access No. 149450 | 3 secs | 2000s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Details from painting "Moselle Cask" by Harry Wedge.
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Access No. 149451 | 8 secs | 2000s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Harry Wedge / NGS / NITV | Colour |
MS artist Harry Wedge talking to curator Hetti Perkins.
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Access No. 149452 | 24 secs | 2000s | Cowra, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Various details from paintings "Taking the Land Away", 2006, "Can't Stop Thinking About It I & III", 2007, and Untitled, 2007 by Harry Wedge.
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Access No. 149453 | 25 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Harry Wedge / NGS / NITV | Colour |
Zoom in on map of Australia to Central Australia and satellite aerial over Utopia, NT. Travelling aerial over community in Utopia.
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Access No. 149454 | 22 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Spot Image / Landsat | Colour |
CU curator Hetti Perkins in front of painting talking about the artist Emily Kam Ngwarray. Zoom out to WS of Perkins in front of huge canvas "Big Yam Dreaming", 1995.
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Access No. 149455 | 34 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Viscopy | Colour |
Archival colour footage of the artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting white lines on huge black canvas. Audio of Emily singing.
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Access No. 149456 | 8 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © Ace Bourke / Jenny Green / Viscopy | Colour |
Travelling aerials over dry riverbeds, red dirt and green scrub of Utopia. Dialogue from artist Emily Kam Ngwarray in indigenous dialect with captions on screen. Time-lapse clouds and sunset over landscape.
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Access No. 149457 | 45 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © ABC / Jenny Green | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph of linguist Jenny Green setting up reel-to-reel tape recorder watched by artist Emily Kam Ngwarray sitting next to her.
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Access No. 149458 | 13 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green | B&W |
MS curator Hetti Perkins sitting at table talking to linguist Jenny Green.
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Access No. 149459 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph of linguist Jenny Green sitting on ground with Aboriginal community.
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Access No. 149460 | 12 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green | B&W |
MS curator Hetti Perkins sitting at table talking to linguist Jenny Green.
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Access No. 149461 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival colour footage of linguist Jenny Green in back of van with Aboriginal community women gathered around her. CUs artist Emily Kam Ngwarray in red scarf.
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Access No. 149462 | 20 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Footage of Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Ngwarray dancing at night in headscarf and body paint.
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Access No. 149463 | 22 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © CAAMA | Colour |
MS linguist Jenny Green in interview.
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Access No. 149464 | 5 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
MS archival colour photograph of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray in head scarf and body paint; montage of B&W photographs of Ngwarray in body paint, seated digging, standing holding goanna, holding goanna by tail, sitting with goanna.
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Access No. 149465 | 29 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green | B&W |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting canvas under tree.
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Access No. 149466 | 12 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Channel 9 | B&W |
MS archival colour photograph of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray with artist Julia Murray.
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Access No. 149486 | -12 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green | B&W |
Colour archival footage of Aboriginal women doing batik, dipping tjantings into frypans of wax, CUs applying wax to fabric stretched over their laps.
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Access No. 149487 | 44 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © CAAMA | Colour |
MS linguist Jenny Green in interview.
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Access No. 149488 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Colour archival footage of Aboriginal women doing batik, dipping fabric into tubs of hot water
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Access No. 149489 | 9 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © CAAMA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray in red scarf applying batik wax via tjanting onto fabric.
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Access No. 149490 | 12 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
MS linguist Jenny Green in interview talking about spontaneous batik technique of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray.
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Access No. 149491 | 9 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Zoom in to archival colour photograph of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray working on batik. Voice over of Emily.
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Access No. 149492 | 11 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green | Colour |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray lighting fire and walking past women on banks of stream drying batik fabric in breeze. Women working on batiks on vats of boiling water, audio with Emily singing.
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Access No. 149493 | 22 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © NFSA / Jenny Green | Colour |
Zoom in to archival colour photograph of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray working on batik with tjanting. Audio of Emily singing. Fade to detail Emily batik painting "Kam" 1988 and "Untitled" 1980.
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Access No. 149495 | 14 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © National Gallery of Victoria / VISCOPY / Emily Kam Ngwarray Estate | Colour |
Tilt up archival colour photograph of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray wrapped in batik cloth.
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Access No. 149496 | 8 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Julia Murray | Colour |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting white lines on black canvas. Audio of Emily speaking.
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Access No. 149497 | 15 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Vivid Pictures | Colour |
Archival colour footage of the artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting white lines on black canvas with audio of Emily talking about the food related to the painting.
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Access No. 149499 | 19 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © Ace Bourke / Jenny Green | Colour |
Archival CU colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray taking tobacco from tinning and placing it in her mouth as she paints.
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Access No. 149500 | 9 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Vivid Pictures | Colour |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting canvas under tree. CUs of her daubing paint on canvas.
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Access No. 149501 | 11 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Channel 9 | B&W |
MS linguist Jenny Green talking to curator Hetti Perkins about artist Emily Kam Ngwarray's painting.
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Access No. 149502 | 4 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting canvas in long grass.
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Access No. 149503 | 13 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Channel 9 | B&W |
MS linguist Jenny Green talking to curator Hetti Perkins about artist Emily Kam Ngwarray's painting and her belief in her country.
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Access No. 149504 | 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival colour footage of the artist Emily Kam Ngwarray dot painting white lines on black canvas. VS stages of painting.
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Access No. 149505 | 25 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © Ace Bourke / Jenny Green | Colour |
Archival WS colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting canvas in long grass as sun sets.
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Access No. 149506 | 20 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Channel 9 | B&W |
Emily Kam Ngwarray paintings "Emu Woman", "After Rain" 1990, "Anoranngait, healing plant", 1908-1912, "Untitled (Awely). Audio of Emily singing.
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Access No. 149507 | 22 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green / Viscopy | Colour |
Archival CU colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray painting. Audio of women talking.
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Access No. 149508 | 16 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Vivid Pictures / NFSA | Colour |
Emily Kam Ngwarray paintings "Anaty (wild potato)" and CUs to detail of brushwork, "Untitled (Alhaker)" , "Big Yam", "Untitled (Awelye)" 1995, "Untitled (Awelye)" 1994. MS curator Hetti Perkins addressing camera in front of "Untitled (Awelye)".
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Access No. 149509 | 52 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Viscopy | Colour |
Archival colour footage of Aboriginal artist Emily Kam Ngwarray at awards ceremony and receiving award from Paul Keating. Voice-over of Emily describing the occasion.
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Access No. 149510 | 36 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © ABC / Jenny Green | Colour |
MS linguist Jenny Green talking to curator Hetti Perkins about artist Emily Kam Ngwarray's desire to retire.
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Access No. 149511 | 8 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival B&W photograph of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray on the cover of the Sydney Morning Herald, October, 1992.
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Access No. 149512 | 6 secs | 1990s | Australia | © Fairfax | B&W |
B&W archival photographs of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray, one with headscarf "Emily with Headband" and the other in beanie "Emily in beanie with AFL jumper".
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Access No. 149513 | 12 secs | 1990s | NT, Australia | © Jenny Green | B&W |
Archival colour footage of artist Emily Kam Ngwarray sitting against wall in front of painting. Audio of Emily singing.
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Access No. 149514 | 23 secs | 1980s | NT, Australia | © Vivid Pictures / NFSA | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins and Mrs Giles entering clothes shop pushing Mr Giles in wheelchair. VS Mr Giles trying on hat, looking at shirts' belts and scarves. Mrs Giles, Perkins and Mr Giles along city streets to entrance of Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney. VS Mr Giles seeing his monumental art work "Tjama Tjamu" as mural for first time.
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Access No. 149515 | 1 min 14 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
MS Warwick Thornton making speech at opening in front of Mr Giles mural "Tjama Tjamu". VS audience. WS shadow across mural. Crowd clapping.
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Access No. 149516 | 41 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © AFTRS | Colour |
Curator Hetti Perkins taking photograph of artist Mr Giles and his wife in front of his mural "Tjama Tjamu" at the Australian Film Television and Radio School, Sydney. Tilts and time-lapse clouds passing over mural. Perkins walking barefoot on beach at sunset. Closing credits
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Access No. 149517 | 2 mins 33 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
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