June 4th, 2017, Ngarrindjeri country
Ngarrindjeri ABC iView season 2 - Ngarrindjeri Shorts - Speaking for SeaCountry
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Ngarrindjeri Shorts - Speaking for SeaCountry showcases the amazing and dedicated Ngarrindjeri artists who hold the keys to a proud, living culture that extends back into millennia. An award-winning Change Media project, the series’ second season was created in collaboration with the Ngarrindjeri community, to celebrate the cultural ambassadors from the Ngarrindjeri Nation. Each episode reveals a different facet of their artistry and expertise while exploring the stories that make up their living culture. For Ngarrindjeri, their art is essential and a part of survival - they speak as country. Their cultural process is as much science as it is spiritual and connects Ngarrindjeri and their stories to their lands and waters and all living things.
Our second season of our Ngarrindjeri documentary series, Ngarrindjeri Shorts’, avaialble on ABC iView, produced in collaboration with Ngarrindjeri artists, Betty Sumner, Cedric Varcoe, Damien Shen, and Lyn Lovegrove Niemz, their families and their communities, has been launched on ABC iView.
The series builds on Everything is Connected, our first series of Ngarrindjeri artist profiles, which won Best Factual Web Series at the International Melbourne WebFest 2016, and was invited to screen at ABC iView's Arts Channel under the title Ngarrindjeri Shorts.
Find a 30sec trailer for each of the four episodes here:
Ngarrindjeri Speaking For Sea-Country - Cedric Varcoe trailer
Ngarrindjeri Speaking For Sea-Country - Lyn Lovegrove Niemz trailer
Ngarrindjeri Speaking For Sea-Country - Betty Sumner trailer
Ngarrindjeri Speaking For Sea-Country - Damien Shen trailer
This project has been assisted by the Australian Government through the Australia Council for the Arts, its arts funding and advisory body, and by the South Australian Government through Arts SA.
