Return to the dreaming (Captioned)

Yirrawala, a great Aboriginal painter, takes his sons, who have grown up in the white man’s world, back into Arnhem Land in an attempt to find sacred caves and aboriginal art. During the journey, Yirrawala makes a bark painting in the traditional way and he shows us cave paintings never before recorded.

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Credits

director

Cecil Holmes

producer

Robert Raymond

production company

Opus Films

Duration

00:50:00:00

Production places

Australia

Production dates

1973

Collection metadata

ACMI Identifier

300046

Language

English

Subject categories

Aboriginal Australia → Sacred sites (Australian Aboriginal)

Aboriginal Australia → Yirawala, 1894-9176

Closed captioning

Crafts & Visual Arts → Aboriginal Australian artists

Crafts & Visual Arts → Rock paintings

Crafts & Visual Arts → Yirawala, 1894-9176

People → Yirawala, 1894-9176

Sound/audio

Captioned

Colour

Holdings

VHS; Access Print (Section 1)

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Australia, 1973

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