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Boomalli - Five Koorie Artists

Boomalli is an artists' cooperative formed by urban Aboriginal and Koorie photographers, painters, sculptors, designers and filmmakers.
Year : 1988 | Total Duration : 28 Minutes | Producer : Paul Humfress
Director : Michael Riley |
Hands of Aboriginal designer and artist, Bronwyn Bancroft painting.
High pan crowd mingling in Boomalli Gallery Studio Workshop. Various shots of artists in crowd, MS Aboriginal Jeffrey Samuels talking with two other people. MCU Bronwyn Bancroft wearing big earrings. MS Aboriginal Tracey Moffatt talking with another women. MCU Fiona Foley laughing. Tilt up Ray Meeks standing with group holding drinks. MS crowd gathered to hear speeches. MS Aboriginal John Newfong, journalist (super) speaking to crowd about significance of Aboriginal artists' exhibition.
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Access No. 132825 | 61 mins 7 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Opening title against red B/G ÒBoomalli, Five Koorie ArtistsÓ. Supers of artists' names appearing as if handwritten over various artworks. Red dissolve to pan of cliff face in Blue Mountains. Watermark image of Aboriginal artist Raymond Meeks in body paint appearing side on over footage of valley . Dissolve to CU painting by Arone, Raymond Meeks. Super. CU pan details of painting. Dissolve to shelves in artist's studio.
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Access No. 132826 | 1 min 28 secs | 1980s | Blue Mountains, NSW, Australia; Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Dissolve from detail of painting to shelves in artist's studio, pan down shelves, across various artists materials including brushes and paints. MS Aboriginal artist Raymond Meeks painting at easel. Good shot brush dabbing at painting. CU Raymond's profile. CU end of paintbrush dabbing at work on canvas. ECU Raymond's face. Dissolve to pan up detail of painting, various CUs details of paintings, drawings and designs.
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Access No. 132827 | 2 mins 49 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
MCU 3 shots framed paintings by Raymond Meeks of big abstract faces based on spirit masks, ECUs and pans details of third painting. Zoom to detail of second painting, various pans. Pull back from third painting and VS details. CU Aboriginal artist Raymond Meeks' face painted in white design, opens eyes. Dissolve to red.
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Access No. 132828 | 1 min 41 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Super ÒBronwyn BancroftÓ, pan CU clothing to Aboriginal artist Bronwyn Bancroft at work in studio. CU paintbrush making pink dots on blue design. Reflection in mirror of Bronwyn at work. Clothes hanging on rack, tags attached. CU design on fabric. Hand going through clothes on rack. CU design on fabric. Earrings being wrapped in tissue paper. CU design on fabric. Reflection in mirror of Bronwyn painting fabric. Sets of earring laid out in display, hand takes a pair away. MS sales assistant serving customer across shop counter. CU design on fabric.
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Access No. 132829 | 1 min 5 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph detail of artist and fashion designer Bronwyn Bancroft's family. Colour photo CU Bronwyn as young girl. B&W photo Bronwyn as young girl in hat laughing. Colour photo Bronwyn as young girl standing with siblings and mother in front of church. Colour photo Bronwyn as young woman in baseball cap. Colour photo Bronwyn in group. Colour photo Bronwyn modelling dress. Colour photo Bronwyn wearing yellow baseball cap and fur stole. Colour photo Bronwyn in sunglasses and wearing bow tie.
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Access No. 132830 | 34 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Bronwyn Bancroft | Colour |
Pan over detail of black and white design. Interview artist and fashion designer Bronwyn Bancroft talking about peoples' interest in Aboriginal art and how much education they need.
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Access No. 132831 | 32 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Rear view performer wearing patterned full cloak with hood, bending down to reveal three female Aboriginal models (dancers) making arm movements. CU various details of designs intercut with VS performers dancing. Pan up detail of colourful painting of person wearing cape. MS performer in cape twirling around. Good top shot dancer in patterned green cloak twirling around. MS performer bending down with cape spread out. VS CU details of colourful designs. Fade to red.
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Access No. 132832 | 2 mins 22 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Super ÒJeffrey SamuelsÓ, pull back from painting, dissolve to another painting, VS. Dissolve to Aboriginal artist Jeffrey Samuels, working at tressel table in big empty studio, slow zoom to Jeffrey painting canvas on table, hands working brushes, CU Jeffrey, zoom to brush working on painting, CU pan detail of painting.
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Access No. 132833 | 1 min 46 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still colour photograph Aboriginal artist Jeffrey Samuels as young boy with other children all sitting on bonnet of Holden car, white foster mother standing in F/G. B&W photo Jeff's foster mother in shorts and bra. B&W photo group of children. B&W photo two topless men standing with three children, two naked. B&W photo four aboriginal children with white foster parents and two dogs. Colour photo group of six teenagers in row with suitcases. Colour photo Jeffrey in class at art school. Colour photo Jeffrey as young man in striped t-shirt. Colour photo Jeffrey next to early artwork. Colour photo Jeffrey next to painting.
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Access No. 132834 | 41 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Jeffrey Samuels | Colour |
CU detail painting by Jeffrey Samuels, pan up painting, pan L-R painting, CU detail painting representing map of Australia. Still colour photograph Aboriginal artist Jeffrey Samuels with group of traditional Aborigines. Colour photo Mornington Island Aboriginal elder working on traditional artwork. Colour photo Jeffrey with older artist. VS details from Map of Australia series. Dissolve to red.
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Access No. 132835 | 1 min 47 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Jeffrey Samuels | Colour |
Super ÒTracey MoffattÓ, CU still b&w photograph of woman by Tracey Moffatt. VS b&w Moffatt photographs of Aboriginal people. Interview photographer Tracey Moffatt, sitting in red seat in cinema, talking about peoples' attitudes to films about Aborigines. Excerpt from film ÒNice Coloured GirlsÓ by Tracey Moffatt, three young Aboriginal women walking down street in Kings Cross at night, drunken man (ÒcaptainÓ) harassing girls in bar, arms appearing in front of framed painting, woman's struggling to grab small bag from male hand, takes bag.
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Access No. 132836 | 1 min 25 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Tracey Moffatt | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Aboriginal photographer Tracey Moffatt as girl. B&W photo Tracey as young girl with two other children. B&W photo Tracey as young girl with three other children. B&W photo Brisbane house with Aboriginal woman (Tracey's mother?) leaning on railing. B&W photo Tracey as small child carrying wreath with white girl. B&W class photo, zoom in to Tracey. Colour photo Tracey as young woman with backpack. Colour photo Tracey and two friends in Europe (possibly Acropolis in Athens).
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Access No. 132837 | 29 secs | 1980s | Australia; Europe | © Tracey Moffatt | Colour |
Pan up still b&w photograph Aboriginal photographer Tracey Moffatt dressed in punk style. Colour photo CU sunglasses, pull back to portrait of Tracey as punk. Colour photo Tracey in profile with punk hairstyle, curl on forehead. B&W photo Tracey posing in stripe t-shirt, heavy eye makeup, CU face. Colour photo Tracey and friend sitting against fake beach backdrop. Colour photo Tracey looking out window from 4WD, WS same.
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Access No. 132838 | 26 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Tracey Moffatt | Colour |
Various still colour photographs by Tracey Moffatt: Aboriginal woman and child with woven basket, two women dipping woven matting in creek, CU hands working weave of basket, palm fronds on white sand with feet, hand holding native plants and red flower, MS Aboriginal woman in hat, CU hands holding bright yellow threads, MS Aboriginal woman holding long strands of yellow and orange fibre, hands plaiting fibre, MS smiling Aboriginal woman with basket on head, MS portrait smiling Aboriginal woman with head tilted back.
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Access No. 132839 | 30 secs | 1980s | Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Tracey Moffatt | Colour |
Aboriginal artist and photographer, Tracey Moffatt, walking along street and entering cafe, sitting down at table joining two friends, CU Tracey, VS woman examining poster in coffee shop.
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Access No. 132840 | 33 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Still b&w photograph Aboriginal photographer Tracey Moffatt, standing in front of banner for Aboriginal rights. Newspaper headline ÒWe Were Tricked - AboriginesÓ , newspaper headline ÒFleet Replay Blackflagged - Tracey Drops AnchorÓ with photo of police arrest, Portsmouth News article ÒFlag Row Hits - Aborigine led away by policeÓ with photo Moffatt with media and police.
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Access No. 132841 | 21 secs | 1980s | Australia; Portsmouth, England, UK | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Archival colour footage, 1987, Aboriginal artist and photographer, Tracey Moffatt talking in protest to press about re-enactment of first fleet organisers wanting to fly Aboriginal flag on ships, being led away by British police and put into police van which drives off. Fade to red.
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Access No. 132842 | 33 secs | 1980s | Portsmouth, England, UK | © Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Super ÒFiona FoleyÓ, pan down distorted shot of rainforest, LS Aboriginal artist, Fiona Foley walking across sand dune. Dissolve to still b&w photograph Batjala tribesman Caboonya, dissolve to portrait photo tribeswoman. B&W photo Batjala man preparing to throw boomerang. Dissolve.
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Access No. 132843 | 40 secs | 1980s | Fraser Island, Qld, Australia | © John Oxley Library | Colour |
Dissolve to b&w cartoon, 1885, Aboriginal people with white settlers in front of house on mission station. Dissolve to b&w photograph, 1900s, three Aboriginal women in white dresses with man standing behind. VS drawing of Aborigines being massacred. Dissolve.
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Access No. 132844 | 16 secs | 1980s | Australia | © University of Queensland | Colour |
Dissolve to LS Aboriginal artist, Fiona Foley walking across sand dune, Fraser Island. Dissolve to still b&w photograph of Fiona with her great uncle Wolfie. Dissolve to pan from waves to WS Fiona walking along beach at edge of surf. MCU artwork by Fiona which includes Aboriginal flag. VS Fiona walking along shore through shallow water with dissolves to VS various artworks. VS 1986 sculpture ÒAnnihilation of the BlacksÓ. Dissolve.
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Access No. 132845 | 1 min 31 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Fiona Foley | Colour |
Dissolve to CU red and ochre coloured sand, WS red clay bank against blue sky, dissolve to pan up of red bank with spindly trees at top, dissolve to pan across bushscape and sand to WS Aboriginal sculptor Fiona Foley working on sand sculpture, VS Fiona digging sand, CU Fiona, Fiona patting down sand and walking away to reveal sculpture. MS clay bank. WS Fiona sitting by sand sculpture. Dissolve to VS paintings and drawings. Dissolve to WS surf, VS seascapes, WS lone horse walking along beach followed by sole figure, pan to Fiona sitting on beach, hand on sand by circle of shells. Fade to red.
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Access No. 132846 | 2 mins 55 secs | 1980s | Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Dissolve to high shot over crowd of people at exhibition opening at Boomalli Gallery. Pan from paintings on wall to Aboriginal artist Fiona Foley in conversation, artist Bronwyn Bancroft with another woman, people arriving, MS Raymond Meeks with friends, Fiona Foley with friends, artist Tracey Moffatt with friend, CU Raymond Meeks, artist Jeffrey Samuels with friends, MCU Fiona Foley, CU Bronwyn Bancroft, MS Aboriginal leader Charles Perkins in conversation, CU Tracey Moffatt, pan over crowd in gallery.
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Access No. 132847 | 1 min 16 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
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