The film:
The audience:
Here’s piece from Elizabeth Povinelli about her work with the Kerrabing film collective:
“The Karrabing Indigenous Corporation seeks to integrate their parents and grandparents ways of life into their contemporary struggles to educate their children, create economically sustainable cultural and environmental businesses, and support their homeland centres. The Karrabing Film Collective makes films that analyse and represent their contemporary lives. But they also believe that in making their films they are keeping the country alive by acting on their country—not merely making a film representing their lives in the country, but paying attention to their country as they make a film in and about it.”
The film has concluded. We’ll now have a conversation among Elizabeth Povinelli, filmmaker Liza Johnson, and David Barker, who edited When the Dogs Talked.
David: This is the first time I’ve seen the movie since I made the final cut. What strikes me about it is its “generosity.”
Elizabeth discusses the “non-eventness” of the film. The setting and action of the film may seem mundane, but there is meaning and truth in this non-eventness.
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