Wednesday, 10 August 2011

Talc ALf

My neighbour from back home does talc carvings and he is a liberater for Aboriginal rights. He has been campaigning for years to get the Aboriginal flag incorporated onto the Australian flag.


http://www.southaustralianhistory.com.au/talcalf.htm
http://www.southaustralia.com/info.aspx?id=9000582

Sunday, 7 August 2011

Tracy Moffat

http://www.roslynoxley9.com.au/artists/26/Tracey_Moffatt/profile/ Worth checking out

Indigenous movies

For this subject we are required to write a reflective paper on an Indigenous event, movie or artwork. I chose movie. The movie I wanted to write about was The Tracker which is a brilliant film but I was unabale to find it. Neither could I find Rabbit Proof Fence. However, I had no difficulty finding Bran Nue Dae; perhaps there's a message there that only humerous cultural movies are easly accessible whereas depressing but accurate films of the mistreatment of Indigenous people are harder to find.

However, I do not mean to insinuate that humerous films have any less merit; Stone Bros is quite popular as was Bran Nue Dae (althought as a stickler for spelling typing it this way makes me cringe)