Karrabing Film Collective: Screening + Q&A

Join the Karrabing Film Collective for a screening of two powerful films exploring Indigenous life, resilience and agency, followed by a live Q&A with the filmmakers.

The Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous-based media group of over 30 members from the Northern Territory.

Filmmaking provides a means of self-organisation and social analysis for the Karrabing. Screenings and publications allow the Karrabing to develop a local artistic language and allow audiences to understand new forms of collective Indigenous agency. Their medium is a form of survivance – a refusal to relinquish their country and a means of investigating contemporary social conditions of inequality. The films represent their lives.

Day in the Life
Dir. Karrabing FIlm Collective, 2020, 34 mins, English, Creole & emmiyenggal.
Over the span of an ordinary day in a small rural Indigenous community, nothing quite works and the authoritative hand of the government is a constant, shadowy presence over the community.

The Family & the Zombie
Dir. Karrabing Film Collective, 2021, 28 mins, English, Creole & emmiyenggal
Karrabing members struggle to maintain their physical, ethical and ceremonial connections to their remote ancestral lands. Meanwhile, in the future, ancestral beings live in the aftermath of toxic capitalism amongst white zombies.

Following the screening, seven members of the Karrabing Film Collective will participate in a discussion and Q&A.