Visual poetics, history-places, and Australian Indigenous philosophy in Romaine Moreton’s films The Farm and The Oysterman (Poésie visuelle, lieux-histoires, et philosophie aborigène dans les films de Romaine Moreton The Farm and The Oysterman)

Castro-Koshy, Estelle (2016) Visual poetics, history-places, and Australian Indigenous philosophy in Romaine Moreton’s films The Farm and The Oysterman (Poésie visuelle, lieux-histoires, et philosophie aborigène dans les films de Romaine Moreton The Farm and The Oysterman). In: [recorded presentation]. From: Le théâtre des opérations: mise en scène de l’action, coordination des mouvements et transformation du monde, 14 December 2015, Paris, France.

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This presentation focuses on The Farm and The Oysterman, two short films by Romaine Moreton, a filmmaker, poet, and philosopher from the Goenpul Jagara and Bundjulung people. It analyses Moreton’s visual poetics and its interconnection with Indigenous philosophy in these films underpinned by joy which re(-)cover the history of places. I show how The Farm underscores the continuity and promising future of an Indigenous (hi)story of a place, unveils the connection between remembering the past and imagining the future, as well as sheds light on how different senses are mobilised in the relationship with the ancestors, thus proposing a counterpoint to a history often narrated as shattered or ruptured. Additionally, I highlight how Moreton explores how the unfamiliar can teem with potentialities and invests the time of the night with a positive imaginary in The Oysterman, thus continuing to redream the dark.

Item ID: 50913
Item Type: Conference Item (Presentation)
Media of Output: mp4
Keywords: Aboriginal cinema, aesthetics, memory, colonial conflicts, joy, love, visual sovereignty
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Included as a contribution to journal Anthrovision 4.1. Special issue on "Visual Creativity and Narrative Research in and on Oceania" (2016) https://anthrovision.revues.org/2004

Date Deposited: 03 Mar 2021 06:28
FoR Codes: 19 STUDIES IN CREATIVE ARTS AND WRITING > 1902 Film, Television and Digital Media > 190201 Cinema Studies @ 33%
16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1601 Anthropology > 160199 Anthropology not elsewhere classified @ 34%
16 STUDIES IN HUMAN SOCIETY > 1699 Other Studies in Human Society > 169902 Studies of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Society @ 33%
SEO Codes: 97 EXPANDING KNOWLEDGE > 970119 Expanding Knowledge through Studies of the Creative Arts and Writing @ 50%
95 CULTURAL UNDERSTANDING > 9599 Other Cultural Understanding > 959999 Cultural Understanding not elsewhere classified @ 50%
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