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.

Filmography

(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

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.

Karrabing Film Collective

32'
Australia

IFFR 2020

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.

Karrabing Film Collective

27'
Australia

IFFR 2020

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.

Karrabing Film Collective

32'
Australia

IFFR 2020

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.

Karrabing Film Collective

34'
Australia

IFFR 2020

Windjarrameru, The Stealing C*nt$

Police wrongfully accuse young men of stealing beer, while miners intrude on the land and contamination spreads.

Karrabing Film Collective

35'
Australia

IFFR 2020

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.

Karrabing Film Collective

29'
Australia

IFFR 2020