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1 online resource (streaming video clip) |
| Summary |
In episode two, Hetti explores the themes of Dreams and Nightmares. The non-Indigenous term, the 'dreaming', refers to the creation era in which ancestral spirit beings shaped the land. They still live within the land. Gija artist Patrick Mung Mung, from Warmun, in the East Kimberley, tells the story of Rover Thomas who started painting after Cyclone Tracy in 1974, when he 'received' a ceremony via a series of dreams. Past, present and future often merge in contemporary Aboriginal art. When the AGNSW acquired 17 evocative Tutini funeral poles from Melville Island in 1959 it was the first time a gallery, rather than a museum, had exhibited contemporary Aboriginal art. Nearly 40 years later, Hetti vividly recalls the dramatic affect those poles had on Tiwi Islands artist Pedro Wonaeamirri. Adelaide-based Brenda L Croft has drawn upon an intriguing collection of 1950s slides of her father mixing in white society. Such images were rare, yet she knows he suffered from being a member of the Stolen Generations forcibly removed from his family. Nightmares play a role in contemporary Aboriginal art. The unique and colourful paintings of Harry Wedge, from Erambie mission, Cowra in NSW, are fuelled by memories from his childhood and his struggles with alcoholism, and sensational current affairs stories. And finally Hetti speaks with Jackie Kurltjunyintja Giles Tjapaltjarri whose massive work adorns a wall at the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney, who shares his tjukurrpa [dreaming]. PRODUCTION DETAILS: Writer and Presenter: Hetti Perkins; Director and Cinematographer: Warwick Thornton; Producers: Bridget Ikin and Jo-Anne McGowan (Hibiscus Films); Executive Producer ABC TV: Amanda Duthie. art + soul is produced by Hibiscus Films in association with Screen Australia, Screen NSW, the Art Gallery Of New South Wales and the Australia Council For The Arts. art + soul was developed and produced in association with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC TV) |
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Australian Studies |
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Visual Art |
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In English |
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Streaming video
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Kanopy (Firm)
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