ART+FILM: A Yolnu Art of Renewal

ACMI presents

ART+FILM: A Yolŋu Art of Renewal

CTC
Film & Talk

Tickets

Full

$14

When

Sat 15 Feb 2025

1.15pm

An invitation to connection and care from the beaches of Arnhem Land.

What can a beach tell us about life and its ongoing possibilities? This mesmerising film project from Arnhem Land offers a powerful counterpoint to the images of environmental ruin that now haunt our collective futures.

Miyarrka Media, an award-winning arts collective based in the outstation of Yalakun in the Northern Territory will screen a work-in-progress edit of their new film, Raŋipuy: everything alive, everything renewed. This is a film made for the beach inside us all, created with the sands and saltwater that have sustained Yolŋu families for countless generations.

A discussion with four members of the collective will follow. Enid Gurunulmiwuy, Meredith Balanydjarrk, Victoria Baskin Coffey and Jennifer Deger will talk about the motivations and methods for crafting what they envisage as a ‘gift to the world’ in times of intensifying peril.

About Miyarrka Media

Miyarrka Media is an intergenerational and intercultural arts collective working on Yolŋu lands in northern Australia. Guided for many years by the late Mr P. G. Wunungmurra they use digital media to explore issues of shared concern. They have exhibited widely including in New York, Sydney, Taipei, Denmark and Darwin and won prizes for their films Manapanmirr, in Christmas Spirit (2012) and Ringtone (2016). Their book Phone & Spear: A Yuṯa Anthropology (2019) won the Gregory Bateson award. The team for this project includes Enid Gurunulmiwuy, and Meredith Balanydjarrk, his son-in-law Warren Balpatji, long-time collaborator Jennifer Deger and visual anthropologist Victoria Baskin Coffey. The Centre for Creative Futures and the Northern Institute at Charles Darwin University, together with Goŋ-Däl Aboriginal Corporation and Gapuwiyak Culture and Arts, provide a home away from home for these beach loving researchers.

Event duration

60 mins

Rating

CTC

Where

Cinema 2, Level 2
ACMI, Fed Square

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