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Dreams and Nightmares Memory and the Spirit World in Australia's Indigenous Art
Title
Dreams and Nightmares [electronic resource (video)] : Memory and the Spirit World in Australia's Indigenous Art / ABC International.
Published
New York, N.Y. : Infobase, [2012], c2010.
Physical Description
1 streaming video file (55 min.) : sd., col., digital file.
Local Notes
Access is available to the Yale community.
Notes
Encoded with permission for digital streaming by Infobase on January 16, 2012.
Films on Demand is distributed by Infobase for Films for the Humanities & Sciences, Cambridge Educational, Meridian Education, and Shopware.
Closed-captioned.
Title from distributor's description.
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Access restricted by licensing agreement.
Summary
For Aboriginal people, the term "dreaming" refers to the creation era in which ancestral spirit beings shaped the land. But in the nightmarish aftermath of colonization, do dreams, collective memory, and the spirit world still have the same power? In this program, viewers meet Australian artists whose works involve, on one level or another, the ancient dreamtime and its echoes. Curator Hetti Perkins talks with sculptors Lin Onus, whose fruit bat installation at the Art Gallery of New South Wales evokes a kind of "suburban dreaming," and Yvonne Koolmatrie, known for inventive forms inspired by the eel traps of the Riverland and Coorong regions. Past, present, and future also merge in the works of Tiwi Islands artist Pedro Wonaeamirri, who has found inspiration in tutini funeral poles, and Adelaide-based Brenda L. Croft, custodian of intriguing 1950s slides showing her father mixing in white society. Several other visionary artists appear and discuss their work.
Variant and related titles
Memory and Spirit World in Australia's Indigenous Art
Films on demand.
Art + Soul (Televsion program)
Other formats
Originally produced: ABC International, 2010.
Format
Images / Online / Video & Film
Language
English
Added to Catalog
May 20, 2019
Series
Art + Soul: Australia's Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Artists
System details note
Mode of access: Internet.
System requirements: FOD playback platform.
Audience
8 & up.
Contents
Introduction to: Dreams and Nightmares: Memory and the Spirit World in Australia's Indigenous Art (1:04)
Suburban Dreaming (2:37)
Legend of Rover Thomas (3:06)
Inspiring a Contemporary Art Movement (2:20)
Reviving Nga-rrindjeri Weaving (4:37)
Past Works Inspire New (2:00)
Stories of Our Ancestors (3:58)
Bathurst & Melville Islands (4:10)
Where Death First Came (2:22)
The Stolen Generations (2:49)
Intermingling of the Races (3:19)
Dreams Link the Past, Present, and Future (4:18)
Understanding Harry Wedge (3:09)
A Unique Artist (3:39)
Turning Traditional Painting Inside-Out (2:11)
Paintings Reflect Heritage (5:01)
Stories in Art (2:49)
Credits: Dreams and Nightmares: Memory and the Spirit World in Australia's Indigenous Art (1:42)
Videorecording number
47259s Infobase
47261 Infobase
Subjects
Genre/Form
Educational films.
Internet videos.
Also listed under
ABC International.
Films for the Humanities & Sciences (Firm)
Infobase.
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