Keeping Country Alive: Dreaming, Decolonisation and the Karrabing Film Collective

Representing not merely an expression of identity but an expository intervention on it, the Karrabing Film Collective's body of work is a reclaiming and reimagining of Aboriginal lore and the loss of culture, land and language. Gabrielle O'Brien unpacks how these weighty concerns are channelled in the recent Karrabing creations Night Time Go, The Jealous One and The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland.

Additional keywords:
identity, heritage, Indigenous, Elizabeth A Povinelli, Top End, Third Cinema, Anson Bay, Darwin, fabulation, Natasha Lewis Bigfoot, Belyuen, politics, community.