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Karrabing Film Collective

Still from film by the Karrabing Film Collective
Location

Northern Territory, Australia

Field

Film, Media

Affiliation

Speaker

Karrabing Film Collective is an Indigenous media group with more than 30 members who use filmmaking as a mode of self-organization and grassroots resistance. Meaning “low tide” in the Emmiyengal language, karrabing refers to a form of collectivity outside of government-imposed strictures of clan membership or land ownership. Shot on handheld cameras and phones, most of the collective’s films dramatize and satirize the daily scenarios and obstacles that collective members face in their various interactions with corporate and state entities. By opening a space beyond binaries of the fictional and the documentary, the past and the present, Karrabing investigates contemporary social conditions of inequality for Aboriginal people, while allowing their audiences to understand new forms of collective Indigenous agency.

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