A camera calligraphy of the coastal bush at Bouddi, NSW. This film springs from a strong attachment to the Australian bush landscape, an echo of the spirit of kinship that imbued the life of the Aboriginal tribes. The film is a camera calligraphy moving through the bush, capturing textures, surfaces, shadows and light, details of foliage and expanses of rocks and trees, insects and birds - it sees the bush in much the same way as Aboriginal hunters may have seen it, moving rapidly through it. The complexity of the images is repeated in the Aboriginal music, visuals and sounds forming a rhythmic pattern.
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Collection metadata
ACMI Identifier
001396
Language
English
Subject categories
Aboriginal Australia → Aboriginal Australians - Music
Climate, Environment, Natural Resources & Disasters → Natural areas - Australia
Sound/audio
Sound
Colour
Colour
Holdings
16mm film; Access Print (Section 1)
16mm film; Limited Access Print (Section 2)