Assignment task:
Choose a film, read the set readings associated with the film and answer one or two of the tutorial questions related to the film. The tutorial questions and readings are listed below the tab for the appropriate tutorial in Moodle.
Please include the readings as an in text reference and clarify.
Larissa Behrendt, 'A personal reflection on self-determining documentary filmmaking practice', Artlink, 39.2, June 2019, pp. 20-27.
Rowena MacDonald, Between Two Worlds: The Commonwealth Government and the Removal of Aboriginal Children of Part Descent in the Northern Territory, (Alice Springs: IAD Press, 1996).
Posting: Lousy Little Sixpence
Lousy Little Sixpence
How important are creative mediums such as film and documentary to telling Aboriginal histories of Australia? Why are such mediums important?
Why is it important that Aboriginal people produce their own accounts of the past?
What does a documentary of the stolen generations do that an academic history cannot?
Does emotion have a legitimate role to play in telling histories (on the screen and on the page)? Why / Why Not?
How do you think did the social and political context of 1980s Australia shaped the documentary Lousy Little Sixpence?
What techniques are used by documentary film makers such as Alec Morgan to portray their depictions of the past as truthful or accurate?