Calendar – Past Event

Featuring the work of award-winning director Beck Cole (Luritja/Warumungu) one of Australia's outstanding filmmakers who will screen and discuss three recent documentaries.

Saturday/ September 12th/ 1- 4:30PM
The National Museum of the American Indian,
The George Gustav Heye Center, One Bowling Green, NYC

A Fair Deal for A Dark Race (2008, 55 min.) tells the story of Indigenous struggle for citizenship in Australia; it was part of the acclaimed 2008 Australian public-television series, First Australians.

Lore of Love (2005, 25 min.) (camera: Warwick Thornton). An Indigenous urban teen journeys with her feisty Pintupi grandmothers to their homelands, where they teach her the lore of love-the traditional way.

Making Samson & Delilah: (2009, 55 min.) goes behind the scenes with Aboriginal teen stars of the feature Samson and Delilah (dir. Warwick Thornton), 2009 Camera d'Or recipient at Cannes.

Discussion to follow with Beck Cole, Warwick Thornton (Kaytetye) and Faye Ginsburg, director, NYU's Center for Media, Culture and History.

Free Admission, reservations recommended 212 514-3737 or FVC@si.edu

In association with Icons of the Desert: Early Aboriginal Painting from Papunya
NYU's Grey Art Gallery, 100 Washington Square East, September 1- December. 5 2009
http://www.nyu.edu/greyart/

Presented with support from the Office of the Australian Consulate General, NYU Department of Anthropology, and Museum of Modern Art, Film and Video Department.

http://www.nativenetworks.si.edu/eng/orange/first_australians.html