Dreamtime, Machinetime

Clip 2: A marriage of cultures

1 min 50 sec

Taken from the documentary Dreamtime, Machinetime (1987)

Original title classification not rated – this clip chosen to be PG

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Collection: National Film and Sound Archive
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Please be aware that this clip may contain the names, images and voices of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people who may now be deceased.

Curator’s clip description

A brush pushes dots against an all black canvas. Trevor Nickolls tells us about the influences that shape his work. Nickolls refers to the Western machinery and Indigenous cosmology known as the Dreaming.

Curator’s notes

Nickolls’ artwork speaks predominantly about the juxtaposition of Indigenous cosmology (Dreaming) and Western machinery and technology, and the coexistence of both in the land now known as Australia.

Romaine Moreton, curator

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