Karrabing Film CollectiveA screening and conversation between collective members and anthropologist Tarek ElhaikThe Karrabing Film Collective is a media group consisting of more than 30 intergenerational Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia’s Northern Territory. Together, amid contemporary settler colonialism and constant state interventions, they create films that challenge Australian political culture. Their body of cinematic work re-animates a complex assemblage of practices and scales of relation: to the land, to geology, to ancestors, to human and non-human life, and to visual culture.A screening of “The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland” (2018) is followed by a conversation between Karrabing Film Collective members and anthropologist, Tarek Elhaik, where they reflect on the relationship between “nyudj”(ancestral spirits) and filmmaking, as a tool to examine the entanglement of Indigenous and settler realities. The conversation will also explore the collective’s distinctive genre of filmmaking, often described as “improvisational realism.” In this mode where drama and satire are blurred, the ruptures between temporality and movement leads the viewer to search beyond the boundaries of documentary and fiction, setting in motion another articulation of past, present, and future. “Night Time Go” (2017) will be screened in the gallery at 5pm, 5.40pm, and 6.15pm.Karrabing Film Collective members present are Gavin Bianamu, Rex Edmunds, Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Cecilia Lewis, Angelina Lewis, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Aiden Sing, Kieran Sing, and Shannon Sing. For more information and the film synopses visit the program page: https://kadist.org/program/karrabing-film-collective/ Karrabing Film Collective (est. 2013, Australia) is an award-winning group of some thirty filmmakers and artists most of whom are Indigenous to the lands and coasts along northwestern Australia. Tarek Elhaik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research is focused on aesthetic anthropology, geo-philosophy, theories of the image, curatorial practice, and conceptual artists' modes of thinking.
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Karrabing Film CollectiveA screening and conversation between collective members and anthropologist Tarek ElhaikThe Karrabing Film Collective is a media group consisting of more than 30 intergenerational Aboriginal filmmakers from Australia’s Northern Territory. Together, amid contemporary settler colonialism and constant state interventions, they create films that challenge Australian political culture. Their body of cinematic work re-animates a complex assemblage of practices and scales of relation: to the land, to geology, to ancestors, to human and non-human life, and to visual culture.A screening of “The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland” (2018) is followed by a conversation between Karrabing Film Collective members and anthropologist, Tarek Elhaik, where they reflect on the relationship between “nyudj”(ancestral spirits) and filmmaking, as a tool to examine the entanglement of Indigenous and settler realities. The conversation will also explore the collective’s distinctive genre of filmmaking, often described as “improvisational realism.” In this mode where drama and satire are blurred, the ruptures between temporality and movement leads the viewer to search beyond the boundaries of documentary and fiction, setting in motion another articulation of past, present, and future. “Night Time Go” (2017) will be screened in the gallery at 5pm, 5.40pm, and 6.15pm.Karrabing Film Collective members present are Gavin Bianamu, Rex Edmunds, Natasha Bigfoot Lewis, Cecilia Lewis, Angelina Lewis, Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Aiden Sing, Kieran Sing, and Shannon Sing. For more information and the film synopses visit the program page: https://kadist.org/program/karrabing-film-collective/ Karrabing Film Collective (est. 2013, Australia) is an award-winning group of some thirty filmmakers and artists most of whom are Indigenous to the lands and coasts along northwestern Australia. Tarek Elhaik is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Davis. His research is focused on aesthetic anthropology, geo-philosophy, theories of the image, curatorial practice, and conceptual artists' modes of thinking.
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