FILM AUSTRALIA COLLECTION

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Home and Away

Series : Art and Soul |
VS inside the Sydney home of Aboriginal museum curator Hetti Perkins, Perkins saying goodbye to her three daughters. Perkins being interviewed in her car and arriving at Art Gallery of New South Wales. VS through back rooms of AGNSW and Perkins walking through Aboriginal Gallery.
Access No. 149216 | 2 mins 12 secs | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Painting "Gabal Ritual" by Willie Gudabi in Aboriginal gallery of the Art Gallery of New South Wales. Perkins walking past paintings to "Limmen Bight River country" by Ginger Riley Munduwalawala. WS "Untitled (Alhalker)" by Emily Kam Ngwarray. Zoom in to graphic map of Australia to Mparntwe (Alice Springs), NT. Satellite image of town.
Access No. 149217 | 1 min | 2000s | Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Spot Image / Landsat | Colour |
VS Aboriginal museum curator Hetti Perkins at petrol station putting fuel into 4WD vehicle, filling gerry can. Aerial track of 4WD along red dirt desert road, good views of outback. WS Walungurru (Kintore) community seen through long yellow grasses. Perkins arriving at Papunya Tula Artists headquarters and being greeted by artist Bobby West Tjupurrula. VS artists on studio floor painting, shaking hands with Perkins. CU painting with traditional implement. Naata Nungurrayi singing as she paints. CU dot painting, ECU to swirls in individual dots as they're applied.
Access No. 149218 | 3 mins 12 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
CU "Untitled", 1999 painting by Aboriginal artist Naata Nungurrayi. VS Papunya Tula Artist Naata Nungurrayi singing as she applies dots to painting. Museum curator Hetti Perkins watching. CU Nungurrayi painting "Two Snake Dreaming at Unkunya".
Access No. 149219 | 1 min 37 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd/Naata Nungurrayi | Colour |
VS Walungurru (Kintore) community enjoying local swimming pool. Museum curator Hetti Perkins interviewing Bobby West Tjupurrula about new dialysis clinic. VS clinic.
Access No. 149220 | 1 min 15 secs | 2000s | Kintore, NT, Australia | © ABC Commercial | Colour |
B&W archival footage of Freddy West Tjakamarra (Bobby West's father).
Access No. 149221 | 13 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © ABC Commercial | B&W |
Archival footage of curator Hetti Perkins as a young child with sister Rachel and parents Charlie and Eileen visiting the Papunya community in the 1970s. VS families camping in humpies on the edge of town, WS of corrugated iron housing. Children drinking from tap, Hetti and Rachel walking amongst wildflowers.
Access No. 149222 | 36 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Perkins Family | Colour |
Archival colour photograph of young school teacher Geoffrey Bardon with dog and Kombi wagon.
Access No. 149223 | 9 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Dorn Bardon | Colour |
Archival colour footage of group of Aboriginal children sitting on ground, some doing sand drawings. Local men painting Honey Ant Mural on school wall.
Access No. 149224 | 12 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Dorn Bardon | Colour |
Pan past desert and humpies to Aboriginal artists sitting on red dirt painting.
Access No. 149225 | 15 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © ABC Commercial | Colour |
Painting "Secret Sandhills", 1972 by Timmy Payungka Tjapangati.
Access No. 149226 | 4 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Estate Timmy Payungka Tjapangati | Colour |
Painting "Snake and Water Dreaming", 1972 by Yala Yala Gibbs Tjungurrayi.
Access No. 149227 | 3 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Aboriginal Artist Agency Ltd | Colour |
Painting "Water Dreaming at Kalipinypa", 1972 by Johnny Warangkula Tjupurrula.
Access No. 149228 | 3 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Aboriginal Artist Agency | Colour |
Painting "Women's dreaming (Two Women)", 1972 by Shorty Lungkata Tjungurrayi.
Access No. 149229 | 4 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Aboriginal Artist Agency | Colour |
Very good aerial track over desert landscape with rock mounds.
Access No. 149230 | 9 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Aerial track over 4WD vehicle travelling on red dirt road in late afternoon light through desert landscape. Art curator Hetti Perkins walking through tribal country with Ray James Tjangala and Bobby West Tjupurrula as they relate their dreaming to the land. GS looking at Tjukurrpa rock painting on outcrop.
Access No. 149231 | 1 min 3 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Time-lapse tilt to desert night sky full of stars. Fade to tilt of balancing boulders with time-lapse into sunset. WS sunrise over desert with LS to mountain range.
Access No. 149232 | 22 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
High angle view over art curator Hetti Perkins walking through tribal country Karilwarra with Bobby West Tjupurrula and dogs. View over two snake design made of rocks on ground. WS Ray James Tjangala arranging stones.
Access No. 149233 | 1 min 56 secs | 2000s | NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
VS art curator Hetti Perkins watching artist Judy Watson drawing traditional aprons from the Aboriginal collection of Queensland Museum, Brisbane in a journal. CU pan down Watson's etching "Museum Piece", 1998. CU Watson tracing around stone object.
Access No. 149234 | 1 min 37 secs | 2000s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Judy Watson | Colour |
GS and CUs of artist Judy Watson's pigment and pastel work "Red Tides", 1997. Zoom out from CU curator Hetti Perkins in blue gloves showing drawings to camera from Watson's journal. WS Watson across table drawing Aboriginal artefacts from museum collection.
Access No. 149235 | 45 secs | 2000s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Judy Watson | Colour |
Artist Judy Watson and curator Hetti Perkins in Watson's proppaNOW artist collective studio hanging her painting "Stake", 2009 from the wall. VS Watson and her children applying pigment to canvas on studio floor. VS studios, artist Richard Bell.
Access No. 149236 | 47 secs | 2000s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Judy Watson | Colour |
Artist Judy Watson with her family and friends walking through her ancestral Waanyi country in north-west Queensland. Reflections in water.
Access No. 149237 | 18 secs | 2000s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Essential Media and Entertainment | Colour |
B&W archival photograph of artist Judy Watson's great-grandmother Mabel Daly with young child. Fade to colour photograph of Daly as an elderly woman.
Access No. 149238 | 7 secs | 1940s | Qld, Australia | © Judy Watson | Colour |
CU artist Judy Watson going through official records relating to her grandmother and great grandmother in Queensland State Archives. Watson and art curator Hetti Perkins discussing Watson's family history in Archives. CU tilt up artist Judy Watson's pigment and pastel painting "Spine", 1997. WS "Spine".
Access No. 149239 | 1 min 11 secs | 1920s | Qld, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Judy Watson | Colour |
Zoom into graphic map of Northern Territory to Western Arnhem Land. Driving along dirt road through bush POV driver. Art curator Hetti Perkins speaking to camera from while driving 4WD. Perkins with James Ilyna and Kevin Djimarr. Ilyna and Djimarr taking Perkins to Djang (special place) Ngalirrkewern and VS rock painting within. Djimarr singing to let others know of their approach. CU rock painting of woman being punished, a sorcery figure known as The Broken Woman. WS rock and native vegetation.
Access No. 149240 | 4 mins 33 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Landsat / Spotmaps | Colour |
CU tilt up "Mimih Spirit", 2002 and 1984 sculptures by Crusoe Kurddal. MS Aboriginal men singing and playing instruments against orange sunset. Fades to water and rocks in sunset, men dancing and playing didgeridoo and yellow ball sun setting in orange sky. LS time-lapse sun setting over sea.
Access No. 149241 | 1 min 22 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Crusoe Kurddal | Colour |
Very good WS of dramatic purple and orange sunrise with sky filled with flying foxes/birds. Sky changing colour and tilts down to sea below.
Access No. 149242 | 14 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © CAAMA Productions Ltd | Colour |
WS 4WD crossing river.
Access No. 149243 | 9 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
VS bark paintings "Yawkyawk", 1985" (three versions), "ngalyod - the rainbow serpent, 1985", "Buluwana, 2002", "Mardayin", 2001 and "Maradyin ceremony", 2000 by John Mawurndjul. CU pans over patterns.
Access No. 149244 | 1 min 16 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © John Mawurndjul | Colour |
WS Federation Square, Melbourne. Movie of Mimih screaming from fridge door by Blackfella Films showing on outdoor screen.
Access No. 149245 | 9 secs | 2000s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Blackfella Films | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins visiting Deacon in her inner city home with bunch of flowers. VS of Deacon's home with dolls and VS photographic works "Dreaming in Urban Areas", 1993, conversation with Deacon. Photographic works "Look Out!", 2009, "Come on in my Kitchen", 2009, "Arrears Windows", 2009, "I cannot remember", 1995, "Over the Fence", 2000, "Being there", 1998, "Meloncholy", 2000 mostly featuring dolls. Deacon and Perkins cooking together. Photographs "Where's Mickey?", 2002 and "Watching Washing Dry", 2009. Perkins addressing camera next to framed paintings in art gallery environment.
Access No. 149246 | 3 mins 53 secs | 2000s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Destiny Deacon | Colour |
WS art curator Hetti Perkins walking with artist Ricky Maynard in St Kilda park. Photographs from Urban diary series, 1997: "Untitled (Auntie Myrtle)", "Untitled 1997", "Untitled (Singing a song while looking for grog)", "Untitled 1997", "Untitled (Galianmble, meaning 'place on the hill')", "Untitled 1997", "Untitled (portrait of Bromo)" and "Untitled 1997".
Access No. 149247 | 2 mins 13 secs | 2000s | St Kilda, Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Ricky Maynard | Colour |
Zoom in to graphic map of Tasmania to Flinders Island.
Access No. 149248 | 9 secs | 2000s | Flinders Island, Tas, Australia | © Hibiscus Films / Spot Image / Landsat | Colour |
B&W archival Colonial photographs (x3) of Tasmanian Aborigines posing outside houses.
Access No. 149249 | 19 secs | 1800s | Tas, Australia | © State Library of Tasmania | B&W |
Art curator Hetti Perkins and artist Ricky Maynard entering gallery of Maynard's photographs in Museum of Contemporary Art Sydney.
Access No. 149250 | 46 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Ricky Maynard | Colour |
B&W archival Colonial photograph of man standing over seated Tasmanian Aboriginal woman, "John Woodcock Graves and Truganini", 1870s.
Access No. 149251 | 11 secs | 1800s | Tas, Australia | © Tasmanian Museum and Art Gallery | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins and artist Ricky Maynard in conversation. Maynard's B&W photographs from the The Moonbird People series "Jason Thomas, Terry Maynard and David Maluga 1985-88", "Coming Home", 2005, "Jason Thomas, the last evening load" 1985-88 nd "Athol Burgess" 1985-88
Access No. 149252 | 40 secs | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Ricky Maynard | Colour |
Ricky Maynard self portrait B&W photograph "Broken Heart", 2005. Art curator Hetti Perkins speaking to camera in front of two Maynard photographs from Returning to Places that Name Us series: "Wik Elder, Gladys" 2000 and "Wik Elder, Arthur", 2000.
Access No. 149253 | 1 min | 2000s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Ricky Maynard | Colour |
Aerial track over the community of Kiwirrkura in the Gibson Desert, WA.
Access No. 149254 | 14 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins arriving at artists studio in Kiwirrkura, the Gibson Desert, WA. Perkins talking to two women and looking at different art works. CU "Untitled", 2009 by Warlimpirrnga Tjapaltjarri. Perkins talking to Tjapaltjarri at his camp and looking at his spears.
Access No. 149255 | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins greeting artist Yukultji Napangati and family. Interview with Napangati. Painting "Untitled", 1999 by Napangati. CU over painting "Untitled", 2005.
Access No. 149256 | 2 mins 50 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd | Colour |
CU painting by Yukultji Napangati "Ancestral women at Yunula", 2008. Interview with Napangati.
Access No. 149257 | 16 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd | Colour |
CU painting by Yukultji Napangati "Untitled", 2005.
Access No. 149258 | 6 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Aboriginal Artists Agency Ltd | Colour |
CU painting by Yukultji Napangati "Untitled", 2004 (bush potato dreaming).
Access No. 149259 | 7 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Papunya Tula Artists | Colour |
Papunya Tula Artists manager Paul Sweeney carrying rolled canvas paintings from 4WD to studios. Doreen Reid Nakamarra sitting on floor with painting, ECUs of her applying paint with tool. Art curator Hetti Perkins interviewing Nakamarra. GS and CUs over Nakamarra's painting "Womens Ceremonies at Marrapinti", 2009
Access No. 149260 | 1 min 29 secs | 2000s | Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Estate Doreen Reid Nakamarra | Colour |
CUs over Doreen Reid Nakamarra's painting "Untitled", 2005.
Access No. 149261 | 6 secs | 2000s | Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Estate Doreen Reid Nakamarra | Colour |
Zoom in to Doreen Reid Nakamarra's painting "Untitled", 2007. Art curator Hetti Perkins talking to Nakamarra about her paintings.
Access No. 149262 | 59 secs | 2000s | Alice Springs, NT, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Estate Doreen Reid Nakamarra | Colour |
WS New York City, Statue of Liberty, Aboriginal artists Doreen Reid Nakamarra and Yukultji Napangati on river cruise. Art curator Hetti Perkins walking hand-in-hand with Nakamarra in Central Park. Perkins posing with Nakamarra and Napangati outside 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York University while photographers take shots and visitors enter gallery. Paul Sweeney and Perkins making speeches.
Access No. 149263 | 1 min 28 secs | 2000s | New York City, USA | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
WS outback landscape at sunset with glowing red rock in distance. Art curator Hetti Perkins in silhouette taking swag from roof of 4WD and sitting at camp fire in failing light. WS time-lapse sunset.
Access No. 149264 | 2 mins 47 secs | 2000s | WA, Australia | © Hibiscus Films | Colour |
Archival colour footage of Aboriginal man looking at Honey Ant Mural on school wall.
Access No. 149271 | 3 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
Archival colour footage of local men painting Honey Ant Mural on school wall.
Access No. 149272 | 10 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © Dorn Bardon | Colour |
B&W archival footage of the Papunya settlement of 1964.
Access No. 149273 | 11 secs | 1960s | NT, Australia | © NFSA | B&W |
Aboriginal artist Watson walking across city bridge, Brisbane at dusk.
Access No. 149274 | 9 secs | 2000s | Brisbane, Qld, Australia | © Essential Media and Entertainment | Colour |
Photographs of men creating and showing their paintings as what would become the Papunya Tula Artists company.
Access No. 149275 | 16 secs | 1970s | NT, Australia | © National Library of Australia | Colour |
VS artist Crusoe Kurddal and student collecting ochre rocks, making ochre. CU Kurddal applying red ochre to his arm. Kurddal interview and VS collecting timber, shaping and painting totem Mimih spirit.
Access No. 149276 | 1 min 21 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Art Gallery of NSW | Colour |
WS artist John Mawurndjul walking through bright green long grasses, chopping down sapling and using it to climb tree and strip off sheet of bark. Mawurndjul curing bark over fire. VS bark propped against walls of Mawurndjul's out station home studio. Curator Hetti Perkins arriving and discussing his work "Maradayin", 2009. CU Mawurndjul and Perkins' hand together examining piece of charcoal. CUs Mawurndjul executing crosshatching on bark painting.
Access No. 149277 | 3 mins 14 secs | 2000s | Western Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Art Gallery of NSW/Maningrida Arts & Culture | Colour |
Art curator Hetti Perkins visiting Aboriginal artist Destiny Deacon in her inner city home with bunch of flowers. VS of Deacon's home with dolls and VS photographic works "Dreaming in Urban Areas", 1993, conversation with Deacon.
Access No. 149278 | 2 mins 33 secs | 2000s | Melbourne, Vic, Australia | © Hibiscus Films/Destiny Deacon | Colour |
Sea and boat accompanied by dolphins through water, artist Ricky Maynard on deck. Maynard walking through boulder outcrop, some with orange lichen, Maynard setting up large format camera on beach.
Access No. 149279 | 30 secs | 2000s | Flinders Island, Tas, Australia | © Roar Films | Colour |