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Tarnanthi Shorts
Sunday 18 Oct 2020
Adult $20, Concession $17, Youth (under 18) $10
Moving-image works and animations demonstrate the constant, restless innovation of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander artists and art centres.
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Alec Baker, Yankunytjatjara people, South Australia, born Shirley Well, Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia 1932, Kunmanara (Peter) Mungkuri, Yankunytjatjara people, South Australia, born Kaltjiti (Fregon), Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia 1946, died Indulkana, Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia December 2021, Kunmanara (Jimmy) Pompey, Yankunytjatjara people, South Australia, born Gap Well, South Australia 1952, died Port Augusta, South Australia 2018, Never Stop Riding, 2017, Indulkana, Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands, South Australia, full high definition digital video, PAL. stereo sound, 10 min, 26 seconds; Acquisition through Tarnanthi: Festival of Contemporary Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art supported by BHP 2020, Art Gallery of South Australia, Adelaide, © the artists/Iwantja Arts, photo: Jackson Lee.
In recent years Aboriginal artists and filmmakers have created a series of off-beat short films and animations in their homelands and communities. Nearly all of the moving-image works in this selection premiered at Tarnanthi, the Art Gallery of South Australia’s annual festival of contemporary Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander art. Their screening together as part of the Adelaide Film Festival presents a rare opportunity for viewers to see a dimension of First Nations creativity that is sometimes poignant, often light-hearted and always entertaining.
The featured works include the unmissable short film Never Stop Riding – billed by the Montreal First Peoples Festival as ‘the only Aboriginal Spaghetti Western ever shot’ – which was created by artists from Iwantja Arts in the Aṉangu Pitjantjatjara Yankunytjatjara Lands. Also from Iwantja Arts and the brush of artist Kaylene Whiskey is Kungka Kuṉpu, a celebration of pop culture that includes animated characters such as Aboriginal Wonder Woman and music icons Dolly Parton, Cher and Tina Turner.
The films include:
Iwantja Arts, Never Stop Riding, 2017
Iwantja Arts, Kungka Kuṉpu, 2019
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, The Meeting Place, 2019
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Petrol Been Wasting All Our Lives, 2017
Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Hunting, 2019
Trudy Inkamala, Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Trudy Inkamala, 2020**
Sally M Nangala Mulda, Tangentyere Artists, No Trouble Here, 2019
Grace Kemarre Robinya, Tangentyere Artists, Olden Times Cowboy Stories, 2020**
Betty Nungarrayi Conway, Tangentyere Artists, After Rain, 2020**
** On display as part of Tarnanthi 2020: Open Hands.