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Records the ‘ky-wayawayama’ or ‘aeroplane dance’ of the Yanyuwa people of the Borroloola area in the Northern Territory of Australia. The dance was came about after an American bomber crashed in the...
An archival film document in 17 parts of the Baruya initiation ceremony, filmed over a six-week period in 1979 and edited in 1990. The programme records the intense ritual activity of a full Muka or...
Professor John Talent, an Australian gelogist, accuses the eminent Indian palaeontologist, Professor V J Gupta, of producing fraudulent papers and spreading a corrupt corpus of disinformation through the...
Discusses the politics of appearance arguing that the wearing of high-heeled shoes has come to symbolise servitude and prosperity. Establishes the high-heeled shoe as an erotic object and symbol of...
Based on the archaeological dig outside Xian in 1974 which unearthed a 6000-strong life size terracotta army and the tomb of Qin Shi Huang Di, the first Emperor of China. Tells the story of his reign....
In 1978 Narritjin Maymuru and his son Banapana were awarded fellowships as visiting artists at the Australian National University in Canberra. The film shows them and their families at work in their...
Narritjin Maymuru talks about his ancestral lands at Djarrakpi, one of the most important sacred sites of his Manggalili clan of the Yolngu people of north-east Arnham Land. Narritjin explains the meanings...
Narritjin Maymuru and his family are establishing a small settlement at Djarrakip, an important Manggalili clan site on the northern head of Blue Mud Bay in the Northern Territory of Australia. Narritjin is...
The way of coping with death in north east Arnhem Land is through rites of clan, religion and land. The funeral is for a young child at an aboriginal clan homeland settlement on the Gulf of Carpentaria. At...
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