As Winter draws in we launch our 2024 ART AFTER DARK program on the Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen.
Spearheading the program is a collaboration between Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin, Josephine Wamutjan James and this month’s digital feature artist and filmmaker Naina Sen.
Header Image: Naina Sen, Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin and Josephine Wamutjan James , Mabbúlarr, 2021, still from digital video.
Bunjil Place Outdoor Screen
1 May – 31 May, 5.00 pm – 7.00 pm daily
Naina Sen, Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin and Josephine Wamutjan James , MABBÚLARR, 2021, still from digital video.
MABBÚLARR
MABBÚLARR is a collaboration between filmmaker and video artist Naina Sen and textile and multimedia artist Josephine James and her mother, senior Kunibídji elder Joy Garlbin, traditional owner of Maningrida. Joy and Josephine work with Bábbarra Women's Centre in textile art to preserve stories linked with country, clan totems and Djang (ancestral creator beings).
MABBÚLARR tells the story of the turtle marláddja (green sea turtle) and the stingray marnandjúbba (cowtail stingray). Exploring and combining the interplay between textile art and moving image, the film is an abstracted story linking the traditional hunting method of the sea turtle to the ceremonial dance, MiÍddjarn.
Bábbarra Women’s Centre is located in Maningrida, homeland of the Kunibídji people in West Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory. Bábbarra is one of the oldest continuously operating Indigenous textile enterprises in Australia. A space run by women, for women. A diverse range of cultural stories from 8 languages, 25 artists and over 80 design stories.
This work was originally was commissioned by Creative Accomplice as part of the NT Travelling Film Festival's Water Tower Series 2021.
Naina Sen
Born and brought up in New Delhi, India, Naina Sen is a Walkley and AACTA nominated filmmaker and video artist. Based on the lands of the Larrakia People in Darwin, Naina has worked extensively with remote Aboriginal communities in North-East Arnhem Land and the Central Desert in the Northern Territory for the last 12 years. Working across documentary, installation and projection, Naina explores gender and cultural identity and equity, privileging First Nations and Southeast Asian narratives.
Naina Sen, Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin and Josephine Wamutjan James , Mabbúlarr, 2021, still from digital video.
Naina Sen, Joy Bulanjdjan Garlbin and Josephine Wamutjan James , Mabbúlarr, 2021, still from digital video.
