When the Dogs Talked
Unwanted obstacles encountered by a family as they search for one of their own are juxtaposed with questions about the Dog Dreaming.
34'
Australia
IFFR 2020
Three wildly varying accounts are offered by members of an Indigenous Australian family for the cause of their boat's breakdown, leaving them stranded in the outback. Settler bureaucracy, modern Christian faith and displeased ancestral spirits are invoked in a series of flashbacks, all shot on iPhone.
IFFR 2020
- 29'
- Australia
- 2016
- Director
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 2016
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 29'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Production Company
- Karrabing Indigenous Corporation
- Sales
- Karrabing Indigenous Corporation
- Screenplay
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Cinematography
- Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Sheree Bianamu, Elizabeth Povinelli
- Editor
- Elizabeth Povinelli
- Production Design
- Sandra Yarrowin
- Sound Design
- Leandros Ntounis
- Music
- Roger Yarrowin
- Cast
- Trevor Bianamu, Rex Edmunds, Linda Yarrowin
Also in this combined programme
Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$
Police wrongfully accuse young men of stealing beer, while miners intrude on the land and contamination spreads.
35'
Australia
IFFR 2020
- Director
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Country of production
- Australia
- Year
- 2016
- Festival Edition
- IFFR 2020
- Length
- 29'
- Medium
- DCP
- Language
- English
- Producer
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Production Company
- Karrabing Indigenous Corporation
- Sales
- Karrabing Indigenous Corporation
- Screenplay
- Karrabing Film Collective
- Cinematography
- Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Sheree Bianamu, Elizabeth Povinelli
- Editor
- Elizabeth Povinelli
- Production Design
- Sandra Yarrowin
- Sound Design
- Leandros Ntounis
- Music
- Roger Yarrowin
- Cast
- Trevor Bianamu, Rex Edmunds, Linda Yarrowin
Programme IFFR 2020
Synergetic
This programme brings together work by film and art collectives that decentralise the mainstream narrative by providing us with alternative histories, presenting other ways of working and other ways of seeing.
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An adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.
45'
IFFR 2020
Armonia
Documentary about The Ummah Chroma made by alumni from the Ghetto Film School, making their debut as a collective with this film.
9'
USA
IFFR 2020
AS TOLD TO G/D THYSELF
The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.
22'
USA
IFFR 2020