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INFRACTIONS is a feature documentary in dialogue with frontline Indigenous cultural workers’ struggles against threats to more than 50% of Australia’s Northern Territory from shale gas fracking.
In the last decade, amid an unceasing mining boom, neo-paternalistic policies have aimed to reverse investments in remote Aboriginal homelands and land rights. With the lifting of a shale gas fracking moratorium in the Northern Territory in 2018, British, US and homegrown settler mining companies exploit the weakness of Indigenous rights paradigms – explained in the film by Professor Irene Watson – to licence the expansion of a toxic industry across vast, ancient underground water systems.
Refuting capitalist and colonial models of land and water on the driest continent on earth, INFRACTIONS seeks to establish productive connections between disconnected archives of land, memory, activism and research.
Featuring contributions by: Dimakarri ‘Ray’ Dixon (Mudburra); Jack Green (Garawa, Gudanji); Gadrian Hoosan (Garrwa, Yanyuwa); Juliri Ingra (Gooreng Gooreng); Jackie Johnson (Gooreng Gooreng); Que Kenny (Western Arrarnta); Robert O’Keefe (Wambaya); Neola Savage (Gooreng Gooreng); the Sandridge Band, and Professor Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk Bunganditj), author of Aboriginal Peoples, Colonialism and International Law.
Production credits: Director/Research: Rachel O’Reilly. Editor/Visual Research: Sebastian Bodirsky. Camera: Tibor Hegedis, Colleen Raven (Nharla Photography), Rachel O'Reilly. Sound: Rachel O’Reilly. Sound mastering: Jochen Jezussek. Map visuals: Valle Medina, Benjamin Reynolds (Pa.LaC.E). Subtitles: Katharina Habibi.
06:30 pm
Wed, 04 Dec 2019
Cinema 1
£7 Full, £5 Concs/Green, £3 Blue Members
An hour-long panel discussion between filmmaker Rachel O’Reilly, Anthony Faramelli, Sarah Keenan, Que Kenny and Olivier Marboeuf follows the screening, asking what role image dissemination and artistic labour can play in any broader, systemic imagination of threats to – and defences of – locally complex and culturally laboured lands and water systems.
An hour-long panel discussion between filmmaker Rachel O’Reilly, Anthony Faramelli, Sarah Keenan, Que Kenny and Olivier Marboeuf follows the screening, asking what role image dissemination and artistic labour can play in any broader, systemic imagination of threats to – and defences of – locally complex and culturally laboured lands and water systems.
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