10th RAI INTERNATIONAL
FESTIVAL OF
ETHNOGRAPHIC FILM
27 JUNE - 2 JULY 2007
UNIVERSITY OF MANCHESTER
INCORPORATING A MAJOR CONFERENCE:
BEYOND TEXT: SYNAESTHETIC & SENSORY
PRACTICES IN ANTHROPOLOGY
CENTRE FOR SCREEN STUDIES
SCHOOL OF ARTS, HISTORIES AND CULTURES
GRANADA CENTRE FOR
VISUAL ANTHROPOLOGY
SCHOOL OF SOCIAL SCIENCES
CELEBRATING 20 YEARS 1987 - 2007
© Antony Gormley's Waste Man commissioned by Artangel for Penny Woolcock's feature film Exodus
FRAGMENTS OF THE OWL'S EGG (90)
14:00, Thursday 28th June, Cosmo Rodewald
Director: Kim McKenzie (Australia)
Year: 2006
Run time: 38'
Location/Ethnic group: Arnhem Plateau, Northern Territory, Australia/ Kunwinjku
Language: In Bininj Kun-wok and English with English subtitles
Production/Distribution: Peter Cooke, Australian National University
Wamud has come back to spend his remaining years on the remote Arnhem Plateau. It is half a century since he and his kin left their lands for the mission and towns of a changing world. He has returned to impart his knowledge both to a new generation and to scientists concerned with the ecology of this vast area. The Plateau is rich in rock art, mostly unrecorded. Wamud recalls from his youth a particular site – he remembers much about its glorious art, but less about its whereabouts. So begins a search as much through memory as through the extraordinary landscape.
