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Revisited

Indigenous media in Central Australia

Sources

These pages show all the interviews for Satellite Dreaming Revisited, alongside all the significant books, documents, films and organisations referred to on the site.

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All sources 111 Books 18 Documents 27 Films 28 Interviews 24 Organisations 20

Document

‘Satellite Dreaming’ - Transcript

Full transcript of the original programme

Book

‘Well, I heard it on the radio and I saw it on the television’

An essay for the Australian Film Commission by Marcia Langton

Book

A Remote Possibility

The Battle for Imparja Television, by Wendy Bell

Red and white front cover for book, with yellow writing - A Remote Possibilty, the battle for Imparja Television

Organisation

ABC

The Australian Broadcasting Corporation

Document

Aboriginal Media and the Australian Imaginary

by Faye Ginsburg

Organisation

AIFTV - Research

Knowledge sharing: Australian Indigenous Film & TV

Interview

Alistair Feehan

“We don’t make money, we don’t hold the licence”

Photograph of white male, Alastair Feehan. Wearing a striped polo shirt.

Organisation

Ara Irititja

The Western Desert digital archive

Document

Artlink Article

Making a TV Documentary about indigenous people’s television…

Front cover of magazine, Artlink. Colour. Featuring a super hero character and a headline Arts in a MultuCultural Australia.

Document

Australia’s Indigenous New Wave:

Future Imaginaries in Recent Aboriginal Feature Films, by Faye Ginsburg

Film

Back Roads

Frances Peters-Little overcoming the tyranny of distance

Screengrab from television with woman in foreground looking out over outback.

Book

Bad Aboriginal Art

Tradition, Media & Technological Horizons, by Eric Michaels

Cropped Front cover scan of book cover, featuring Bad Aboriginal Art. Colour and shapes.

Organisation

BRACS

The Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme

Film

Bush Mechanics

Off-beat series following the Warlpiri Bush Mechanics

Organisation

CAAMA

The Central Australian Aboriginal Media Association

Document

Channels of Resistance

Leaflet from the 1993 TV Series

Close up of book or magazine scan. Showing Video images and TV listings in black and white.

Interview

Cilla Atkins

“We’ve gone up to the next level now…”

Interview

Clive Scollay

“Isn’t it about time they told their own stories?”

Document

Communication & Tradition

Essays after Eric Michaels

Film

Coniston

by David Batty & Francis Jupurrula Kelly

Document

Connected, Creative and Cultural Communities

PhD Thesis by Daniel Featherstone

Book

Culture Crisis

Anthropology and Politics in Aboriginal Australia

Interview

Daniel Featherstone

“Video as a tool for cultural continuity”

Interview

David Batty

“You had to film it”

Book

Developing Dialogues

Indigenous & Ethnic Community Broadcasting in Australia

Interview

Dion Weston

‘You’ve got to see Imparja in a bigger picture…’

Organisation

Disconnect

A podcast series from the Digital Ethnography Research Centre, RMIT

Film

Early CAAMA promo

Aboriginal Radio in Aboriginal country

Document

Embedded Aesthetics

Creating a Discursive Space for Indigenous Media

Organisation

EVTV

Ernabella Video Television (now PY Media)

Book

Experiments in Self-determination

Histories of the outstation movement in Australia

Book

First Australians

The book & award-winning TV series

Organisation

First Nations Media

Not-for-profit broadcasting, media and communications

Interview

Frances Peters Little

“We aren’t going to be homogenised…”

Interview

Francis Jupurrurla Kelly

‘The way I see it, media is us, not other people…’

Interview

Freda Glynn

‘We were going to make our mob proud of themselves…’

Film

Gapuwiyak Calling

Celebrating mobile phones as technologies of creativity and connection.

Book

Global Indigenous Media

Cultures, poetics and politics

Document

Google Earth Map

Mapped Co-ordinates on this Site

Document

Governing Cultural Difference

PhD Thesis by Philip Batty

Organisation

ICTV

Indigenous Community Television

Organisation

Imparja Television

Broadcaster spanning six states and territories

Film

In My Blood It Runs

A film and a multi-year impact campaign

Book

Indigenous Digital Life

The Practice and Politics of Being Indigenous on Social Media

Document

Indigenous Media

Faustian Contract or Global Village? by Faye Ginsburg

Book

Indigenous Peoples Rise Up

The Global Ascendency of Social Media Activism

Organisation

indigiTUBE

The online media platform by and for First Nations people

Book

Internet on the Outstation

The Digital Divide and Remote Aboriginal Communities

Interview

Ivo Burum

“It’s all about self-determination”

Interview

Jennifer Deger

“The power of the new to revitalize the old…”

Interview

John Dallwitz

“The software had to do what they wanted, not the other way around…”

Document

Kapi Tjukurla (Waterhole)

A painting by Pantjiti Tjiyangu

Interview

Kim Dalton

“Those communities should have the resources to tell their stories at the same level as whitefellas…”

Book

Kin

An extraordinary Australian filmmaking family

Interview

Lester Bostock

‘A lot more have come through…’ & ‘Aboriginal thought needs to be part of the mainstream…’

Film

Lousy Little Sixpence

Documentary about the Stolen Generations

Film

Making Bush Mechanics

Behind the scenes of the TV series

Film

Making Samson & Delilah

Shot & directed by Beck Cole

Film

Manyu Wana

‘…the Warlpiri Sesame Street’

Organisation

Maruku Arts

Anangu Arts Collective

Interview

Michael Liddle

“Have we got the energy to keep on going with our identity?”

Document

Missing in Action

The ABC and Australia’s screen culture - 2017 paper by Kim Dalton

Organisation

Miyarrka Media

- a Yolngu media arts collective

Document

National Report on BRACS

Scanned image of two women sitting and smiling in front of a video equipment, with the caption Brodacasting for Remote Aboriginal Commuinties Scheme.

Interview

Neil Turner

“A priceless cultural heritage for all of Australia”

Organisation

Ngaanyatjarra Media

indigenous-owned media organisation in the Western Desert region

Film

Nganampa Anwernekenhe

TV Series maintaining Aboriginal languages and culture

Document

Ngintaka (goanna)

Carved river red gum, by Topsy Walter (Tjulyata)

Interview

Nicolas Lee

“It’s a difficult landscape at the moment…”

Organisation

NITV

The National Indigenous Television station

Film

NT Mojo

Nothern Territory Mobile Journalism

Interview

Owen Cole

“The funds just weren’t there…”

Organisation

PAKAM

Pilbara and Kimberley Aboriginal Media

Interview

Pantjiti Tjiyangu

‘Those pictures are truly beautiful…’ & ‘We have taught them but they don’t know…’

Document

Pantjiti Ungkari

With Mrs N. Lewis’s Tjanpi film camera

Organisation

PAW Media

Pintubi Anmatjere Warlpiri Media & Communications

Interview

Philip Batty

“The most powerful tool ever handed to Aboriginal people?”

Book

Phone & Spear

A Yuta Anthropology - Miyarrka Media

Document

Production Values

Indigenous Media and the Rhetoric of Self-Determination, by Faye Ginsburg

Organisation

Rebel Films

David Batty’s Production Company

Film

Redfern Now

The first Indigenous prime-time drama series on Australian television

Book

Remote Avant Garde

Aboriginal Art under Occupation, by Jennifer Loureide Biddle

Interview

Rhoda Roberts

“So now we have to bring back the fires…”

Film

Ringtone

by Miyarrka Media

Organisation

Ronin Films

Film Distributors

Interview

Rosie Kumalie Riley

“The stories are out there…”

Film

Samson & Delilah

Warwick Thornton’s 1st Feature Film

Document

Samson & Delilah

From Central Australia to Cannes, by Faye Ginsburg

Film

Satellite Dreaming

Document

Satellite Dreaming Crew

Filming in Yuendumu in 1991

Organisation

SBS

The Special Broadcasting Service

Film

She Who Must Be Loved

A film about Freda Glynn, by Erica Glynn and Tanith Glynn Maloney

Book

Shimmering Screens

Making Media in an Aboriginal Community, by Jennifer Deger

Document

Singing the Electric

Chapter by Philip Batty in ‘Channels of Resistance’

Book

Songlines to Satellites

Indigenous Communication in Australia, the South Pacific and Canada

Film

Sweet Country

Warwick Thornton’s 2nd Feature

Interview

Tanya Denning-Orman

“We’re in control of our narrative…”

Film

Tent Embassy

Documentary about the Aboriginal Tent Embassy

Film

The Aboriginal Invention of TV

A video Report by Eric Michaels & the Warlpiri Media Association

Film

The Beach

Warwick Thornton’s 2020 TV Series

Document

The Greater Perspective

Protocol and Guidelines for the Production of Film and Television…

Book

The Mojo Handbook

Theory to Praxis, by Ivo Burum

Document

The Potential Diversity of Things We Call TV

Indigenous Community Television, Self determination and NITV

Document

The Return of the Noble Savage…

MPhil Thesis by Frances Peters-Little

Film

Trailer 2

No photo thumbnail

Film

Vote Yes for Aborigines

A documentary about the 1967 Referendum

Interview

Warwick Thornton

“We have a very specific way of looking at the world…”

Film

We Don’t Need a Map

A 2017 film by Warwick Thornton and Brendan Fletcher

Document

Website Launch

Zoom event on 11/02/22