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Dreamings - The Art of Aboriginal Australia

Explores the meaning behind Aboriginal artworks ranging from the acrylic dot painting of the Central Desert to the cross-hatched bark paintings of northern Australia.
Year : 1988 | Total Duration : 30 Minutes | Producer : Janet Bell (Producer), Tony Wilson (Associate Producer)
Director : Michael Riley |
Aerial waterfalls and Kakadu rock formations. Sand dune. CU and twisting shot aboriginal dot paintings. Aerial salt deposits of Lake Eyre and similar lines on paintings. VS outback sand formation, forked lightning and red rocks, spinifex, fire, rain clouds. Kangaroos and galahs drinking. Red rocks.
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Access No. 124637 | 2 mins 24 secs | 1980s | NT, SA, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aboriginal women seated, talking (subtitled) about not losing their country. Women with water, ceremony. CU paintings.
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Access No. 124638 | 2 mins 40 secs | 1980s | Yeundemu, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Outback landscape. Aboriginal woman making fire, dogs, humpies. Paddy Carrol painting dreaming story. Light aircraft on ground at Papunya, Aboriginal man Michael Nelson Tjakamara talking to non indigenous pilot, looking at photographs. CU's paintings. Inside aircraft and aerials of landscape, interpretation in paintings including rainbow serpent. Tjalamara talking to camera during flight.
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Access No. 124639 | 3 mins 35 secs | 1980s | Papunya, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aboriginal man Michael Nelson Tjakamara painting outdoors, children watching at Papunya, NT. Includes concentric circles. Women outdoors with paintings on canvas at Yuendumu, painting and singing. Women working on the land. CU's paintings. Women and children digging for and eating honey ants. Women grinding pigments and painting bodies. CU's paintings. Women dancing and singing.
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Access No. 124640 | 5 mins 6 secs | 1980s | Papunya, Yuendumu, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Women painting and singing story of the Sugarleaf Dreaming. Children sitting with them.
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Access No. 124641 | 2 mins 50 secs | 1980s | Yuendumu, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Fast aerials over rocky and barren landscapes including east coast of Arnhem Land. Aerial meandering river. CU paintings of Djunkawa Dreaming. Water running. Aboriginal men, David and John (son) Malangi at sacred site (waterhole). David Malangi, traditional bark painting, catfish (Ramingining).
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Access No. 124642 | 2 mins 6 secs | 1980s | Ramingining, Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Aboriginal woman, Banduk Marika, David Malangi's niece and daughter of artist, Mawalan Marika, chopping bark of tree. Designs passed through the family. Banduk explaining debarking process. Mawalan putting bark on fire to help it expand. Mawalan collecting and grinding ochre from rocks. Painting on bark. Banduk seated on sand with dogs. Working on bark.
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Access No. 124643 | 5 mins 8 secs | 1980s | Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © Restricted Access - Contact Film Australia Collection Library | Colour |
Decorated burial poles with Aboriginal designs. Slow pan up and across two hundred poles prepared by different artists as aboriginal protest against European settlement.
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Access No. 124644 | 2 mins 15 secs | 1980s | Sydney, NSW, Australia | © Michael Edols | Colour |
Banduk Marika, David Malangi's niece and daughter of artist, Mawalan, by trees. Showing her lino cuts and explaining representation. CU cross hatching in painting. Jimmy Wullullu painting hollow logs. Poles symbolising cycle of life and death.
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Access No. 124645 | 2 mins 31 secs | 1980s | Yirrkala, Arnhem Land, NT, Australia | © NFSA | Colour |
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