Karrabing Film Collective
KARRABING FILM COLLECTIVE is an indigenous media group formed by approximately 30 members, most of whom are based in the Northern Territories of Australia. Initiated in 2008 as a form of grassroots activism, they approach filmmaking as a mode of self-organisation and a means of investigating contemporary social conditions of inequality. With their films and installations, the collective exposes the long shadow and different shapes cast by colonial power.
Filmografie
(all short) When the Dogs Talked (2014), Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$ (2015), Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams (2016), The Jealous One (2017), Night Time Go (2017), The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland (2018), Day in the Life (2020)
Karrabing Film Collective at IFFR
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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.
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Night Time Go
Documentary and fiction mix to tell the little-known true story of the Karrabing ancestors’ resistance and escape from an internment camp.
Day in the Life
A richly textured panoply of trauma, daily obstacles and moments of joy is accompanied by an original hip-hop anthem of truth and resistance.
Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
Using humour and experimental film techniques, three perspectives are offered on why the motor in an Indigenous family’s boat broke down.
The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland
This irreverent genre mash-up explores possible perspectives for young Aiden in a not-too-distant future destroyed by poison.
Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$
Police wrongfully accuse young men of stealing beer, while miners intrude on the land and contamination spreads.