Prior to white contact - and in fact prior to 1988 - the public art form of the Yanyuwa people was song poetry. There were many hundred of these remembered.
These animations were directed by a group of women who were the last holders of these songs. They celebrate life, hunting, travelling, the Makassan trepangers and understandings of identity. They requested the songs be animated to give vision to a language and form of art that was falling away. The senior women wanted them shown without subtitles, but for the audience to read the words first, and then experience the film.
Presented as part of our 2023 digital exhibition program, this film is part of a series of animations designed to record the past, preserve the present and protect Indigenous languages and knowledge in the future.
Credits:
Animation: Brent McKee
Directed: Associated Professor John Bradley with senior Yanyuwa elders Dinah Norman a-Marrngawi, Mavis Timothy a-Muluwamara, Jemima Miller a-Wuwarlu.
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