VIDEOS x ART CENTRES

Over Summer Videos x Art Centres presents a selection of short films from Aboriginal Art Centres featuring stories of Anangu and Western Arrernte people living in remote communities.

• Tjanpi Desert Weavers - Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands

Tangki (Donkey)

Three Aṉangu women recount how donkeys came to be well loved in their desert community in the time before modern things like cars existed. Today, one special donkey is still a good friend.

Kukaputju (The Hunter)

Yanyangkari and her clever dog, Kungka, go hunting in the bush. What they catch surprises and delights them, and their companions.

• Iltja Ntjarra Many Hands Art Centre – Mparntwe/ Alice Springs and Ntaria/ Hermannsburg community

'Pmarra nurna-kanha ntarntarai' - Care for our Country

Iltja Ntjarra artists are sharing their concerns about the mining of their Country with strong words and powerful artworks made of repurposed road signs.

“A series of powerful repurposed road signs speak to the way Country is named and boundaries have been drawn since colonisation. Brother and sister Reinhold and Vanessa Inkamala have painted on large square signs, reclaiming these road markers back to country. Vanessa also worked with her sisters, Delray, and Dianne Inkamala to depict the way the environment has been changed by tourism and the arrival of missionaries.

Other significant road sign works have been created by Kathleen France, Mandy Malbunka, Selma Coulthard, Ada Lechleitner, Kathy Inkamala, Dellina Inkamala and Mervyn Rubuntja.”

Marisa Maher (Iltja Ntjarra Assistant Manager and Board Secretary)

• Milpa Project – Spinifex Artists, Tjuntjuntjara Community (WA)

An animated stop motion cooking show developed, shot and edited by the artists in Tjuntjuntjara community. In this show, the community Women’s Centre kitchen is reproduced with designed characters inspired by the artists’ everyday life stories. Sharing one their favourite meal recipe and capturing an authentic family time going out bush hunting for maku (witchetty grubs).

Putikutu Ananyi: Bush Trip

Tjuntjuntjara Cooking Show: Butter Chicken