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Publisher
Ronin Films
Pub. Date
2020.
Language
English
Description
A portrait of Warlpiri Elder and Lawman, Francis Jupurrurla Kelly – a pioneer of Indigenous filmmaking in central Australia. Jupurrurla was the producer of highly regarded TV programs such as Bush Mechanics, Manyu Wana and Coniston, and was a key figure in the foundation of the Warlpiri Media Association which grew out of a pirate TV station in the 1970s. Warlpiri Media is operating to this day as PAW Media (Pintubi, Anmatjere and Warlpiri Media),...
42) Heritage
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1935.
Language
English
Description
An epic scale narrative of Australian history from master filmmaker Charles Chauvel (Jedda), HERITAGE spans the earliest days of white settlement in 1788 across some fifty years to the 1930s. The story follows the life experiences of the Morrison and Parry families as they establish themselves within a new and challenging colony in Sydney. Facing the many trials and tribulations of settlement life, their actions would go toward shaping the nation....
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A man of the Western Desert collects gum from spinifex. His wife separates the gum from spinifex particles. He then melts the gum into a usable state. He then goes to a quartzite quarry and collects a large core; back at camp he knaps this to obtain a stone knife, a scraper for his spear-thrower, and a hand chopper. Using his spinifex gum he puts a gum handle on the knife and then sticks the scraper onto the handle of his spear-thrower, his previous...
Publisher
Magnolia Pictures
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
NOT QUITE HOLLYWOOD is the wild, wonderful, untold story of “Ozploitation” films. It irreverently documents an era when Australian cinema showed the world a full-frontal explosion of sex, violence, horror and foot-to-the-floor action.
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
In three sequences - A woman of the Western Desert spins human hair string. A girl climbs into one of the deep wells at Tika Tika and scoops up water from the bottom with her wooden dish. The girl’s hair is bound with hair sting.
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
A general introduction to the series “People of the Australian Western Desert”, shot in 1965 with Djagamara and his family at Badjar and Minma and his family at Tika Tika and Yalara, in the Gibson Desert area of the Western Desert.
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A man of the Western Desert cooks a kangaroo according to Western Desert custom and then divides it into its various cuts using stone and wooden tools. Children get water from a well in a rocky area using wooden dishes.
48) Mamu
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
Two men of the Western Desert chase amamu or evil spirit out of camp. Both men are mapantjara, men who have the power to remove powerful bones or stones from their stomachs and use them for medicine and dealing with the spirits. They chase the mamu away by removing bones from their stomachs and hitting these along and into the ground with their spear-throwers.
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
2008.
Language
English
Description
One of the most brilliant generals of World War I and an architect of Anzac Day, Sir John Monash helped create the Anzac legend by ensuring the courage of his men was enshrined in Australian history. Today he is all but forgotten. MONASH explores the character and achievements of an extraordinary figure in Australian history, the battles he fought both on and off the battlefield, and the prejudice he overcame to help win a war. The film examines Monash’s...
50) Quandong Cake
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A woman of the Western Desert nurses her baby; she then grinds the dried skin and flesh of quandong fruit and mixes this with water to make an uncooked cake which is then eaten.
51) Headache
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A man of the Western Desert who is a mapantjara or healer operates on another man who has a headache. He takes powerful bones from his stomach and pushes these into the patients head. He then sucks at the back of his patients head to draw out the sickness.
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
A nomadic family of the Western Desert moves from Yalara camp to Tika Tika camp a days walk away. On the way they gather fruit, grass seed, lizards and a rabbit eared bandicoot. After making camp and getting water from a deep well, they cook some of the food. This is an edited sequence shot over several days. The family consisted of a man, two wives and four children. They were in fact living at Warburton Mission at this time and were taken out to...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Daily life and technology of nomadic Aborigines of the Western Desert. A man prepares gum from spinifex, which is used as a general purpose cement, he strikes stone flakes for tools. He leaves his camp at Badjar.
54) Black Hole
Publisher
Giant Interactive
Pub. Date
2015.
Language
English
Description
One Mining Company, a 965 day blockade, over 400 voluntary arrests, a State Forest home to 396 species of native fauna and flora, 34 endangered species and 12 Indigenous sacred sites. Set against the backdrop of an ever increasing thirst for fossil fuels by the extractive industry and the Australian government. BLACK HOLE is an intensely riveting exposé of the battle to save the last of an endangered woodland forest from being cleared to make way...
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1967.
Language
English
Description
A man of the Western Desert makes a spear thrower (or Woomera), he cuts the wood from a mulga tree and shapes it with a metal axe. He prepares spinifex gum, flakes a stone blade, and sticks the stone (for use as a knife and scraper) to the spear-thrower handle with the gum. He binds a barb to the other end of the spear-thrower with Kangaroo leg sinew.
57) Cooking Kangaroo
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
A kangaroo has been shot. A man of the Western Desert guts it using the stone in the handle of his spear-thrower. After singeing off the fur in a blazing fire. The kangaroo is cooked in a trench covered with glowing ashes and soil. The cooked kangaroo is cut up according to custom.
58) Fire Making
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
Two boys of the Western Desert make fire. They gather dry kangaroo dung, crumble it and put it in a cup of dry grass which they stuff into a crack in a dead log of wood. They rub a spear-thrower across the log and the friction ignites the kangaroo dung.
59) Making a Wira
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1971.
Language
English
Description
A man of the Western Desert cuts a section of wood from a tree for making into a digging dish or wira. He starts by using the hand chopper he has made, but after a time changes to a metal axe. Back at camp he shapes the wood into a digging dish.
Publisher
National Film and Sound Archive of Australia
Pub. Date
1966.
Language
English
Description
In three separate sequences - An old deserted camp site in the Western Desert; A woman mends a cracked wooden dish with spinifex gum; A woman demonstrates the preparation of a headache lotion from Quandong fruit.
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