Karrabing Film Collective

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The Karrabing Film Collective is an indigenous film and art collective that was formed in Australia in 2008 . The collective's films were presented at the Countour Biennale 8 (2017), the 67th Berlin International Film Festival - Berlinale in the Forum Expanded category (2017), documenta 14 (2017), and the Sydney Biennale (2016).

founding

The collective was founded in response to the attacks by the Australian state on the social and territorial structures of the indigenous population and consists of around 30 members, most of whom live in the Belyuen community in the Northern Territories . Karrabing means " ebb " in Emmiyengal language and refers to a form of collectivity outside of government-imposed restrictions on clanship or land ownership.

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Most karrabing films made with handheld cameras and telephones dramatize and satirize the daily scenarios and obstacles that collective members face in their various interactions with corporations and government agencies. Karrabing composes non-linear narratives that touch cultural memory , place and origin by jumping freely in time and place. The films made together open up a space beyond the contrasts between fiction and documentation , past and present. In doing so, the collective reveals and problematizes the longstanding and persistent structures of colonial violence that directly affect the members of the collective, such as environmental degradation , land restrictions and economic exploitation . The main theme of the films is the struggle to adapt to the more insidious everyday interventions of the state (the intrusion of police officers, housing companies, social services into their small community), to withstand the pressures of extractivism and capitalism , and to maintain their links with one another. The films, written, acted, and directed by members of the group challenge the narratives that were imposed on those in power on marginalized communities. The collective understands their aesthetic practice as a means of self-organization and social analysis.

Earlier works by the Karrabing Film Collective are rather documentary. With The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland from 2018, the collective's cinematic work became more experimental. The film tells the story of Aiden, an indigenous boy who is separated from his parents at birth and taken away by scientists who carry out an eugenics experiment. Working with futuristic motifs in the film, the film reflects historical events: In Australia, indigenous children were taken out of their families for re-education measures from the beginning of the 20th century to around 1970.

Films (selection)

  • 2014: When the Dogs Talked
  • 2015: Windjarrameru (The Stealing C * nt $)
  • 2016: Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
  • 2017: Night Time Go
  • 2017: The Jealous One
  • 2018: The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland
  • 2020: Day in the Life

Contributors

Awards

In 2015 the collective won the Visible Award for the film Salt. In the same year they received the Cinema Nova Award for Best Fiction Short Film for the film When The Dogs Talked.

Individual evidence

  1. ^ House of World Cultures: Karrabing Film Collective. August 9, 2017, accessed February 22, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b Karrabing Film Collective. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  3. ↑ Site name: The Karrabing Film Collective, interviewed by Ben Eastham / ArtReview. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  4. ↑ Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams. Retrieved February 23, 2020 .
  5. ↑ Martha Schwendener: Karrabing Film Collective Reflects a Disturbing Reality at MoMA PS1 . In: The New York Times . May 15, 2019, ISSN  0362-4331 ( nytimes.com [accessed February 23, 2020]).
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