Salt, Sea and Zombies
Karrabing Film Collective
The Karrabing Film Collective is a media collective based in Australia’s Northern Territory, founded by members of several Aboriginal communities. The collective uses filmmaking as a tool for self-representation, political reflection, and collective organisation. Their films grow out of life on their land and territories and are created collaboratively with community members who develop, perform, and shape the stories.
Over the past decade Karrabing has become one of the most outspoken voices in contemporary Australian art and experimental film. Their work is shown worldwide at film festivals, museums, and biennials. The films combine documentary, fiction, and performance, bringing together humour, personal stories, and knowledge rooted in landscape, community, and ritual.
In these films technology appears not only as machinery or infrastructure. Knowledge about land, ecology, and history also functions as a way of understanding the world and acting within it. Filmmaking thus becomes a way to make these forms of knowledge visible and to share them.
This programme presents three films: Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams (2016), a story about a broken boat that unfolds into a reflection on saltwater cosmology; The Family & the Zombie (2021), a speculative narrative based on Emmi stories about land and ecological threat; and Night Fishing with Ancestors (2023), a quiet reflection on fishing, nighttime landscapes, and relations between the living and earlier generations.
What else is on Friday?
Check the timetable to visit more programmes with your Festival Pass (5-days) or Day Pass (1-day). With the passes you can also visit the festival exhibition Techno-Ancestrality at the IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and BAK Basecamp.
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