From
U-Matic to YouTube:
A national symposium celebrating three decades of
Australian Indigenous community film and
video
Supported by:
- Research Unit in Film Culture and Theory (School of English,
Communications and Performance Studies), Monash University
- Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash University
- Australian Centre for the Moving Image
Date: 8-9 June 2010
Venue: Australian Centre for the Moving Image (ACMI), Federation
Square, Melbourne, Australia
Invited speakers:
- Malarndirri McCarthy (MLA – Arnhem Land)
- Faye Ginsberg (New York University)
- Romaine Moreton (Umulliko Indigenous Higher Education Research
Centre, University of Newcastle, poet and filmmaker)
- Lynette Russell (Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash)
- John Bradley (Centre for Australian Indigenous Studies, Monash)
- Jason Eades (Koorie Heritage Trust, Victoria)
- Alessandro Cavadini (Red Dirt Films)
- Carolyn Strachan (Red Dirt Films)
- Leonard Norman, Graham Friday, Dinah Norman and Mavis Timothy
(Borroloola)
- Kimba Thompson (Sista Girl Productions)
- Trevor Graham (Yarra Bank Films)
- Jason De Santolo (Jumbunna UTS Indigenous Education)
- Maryrose Casey (Centre for Theatre and Performance, Monash)
Full Programme:
http://www.arts.monash.edu.au/ecps/conferences/from-u-matic-to-youtube/
Screening features
- Internationally acclaimed and recently updated Two Laws (1981)
- Australian premiere of Yanyuwa Animated Songline Project (2010)
- Areoplane Dance (1994)
- New Indigenous works from ACMI’s Digital Storytelling Project and
Sista Girl Productions.
- Two Laws DVD Launch, with Malarndirri McCarthy (MLA – Arnhem
Land) and Faye Ginsburg (NYU), followed by a public screening.
Conference dinner:
Wednesday 9 June 2010
Registration:
One Day: $80
Two Days: $120
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Contact:
(Therese.Davis /at/ arts.monash.edu.au)
Convenors:
- Dr Therese Davis (Co-Director, Research Unit in Film Culture and
Theory, Monash University)
- Helen Simondson (ACMI)
