Dreamtime, Machinetime

Clip 3: Changing

2 min 38 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

Banduk Marika walks amongst the Sydney population. She speaks about the use of Dreaming symbols and the restriction that occurs as a result of each family member being responsible for different symbols and stories.

Curator’s notes

An important insight into the relationship between art and the responsibility to land. Marika mentions that European art is different, and in the context of the direct relationship between the artist and familial or inherited responsibility over tracts of land, Indigenous art and European art fulfils greatly different functions.

Romaine Moreton, curator

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