Person
Elizabeth Povinelli
Directing · Born 1962-02-03 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Biography
Povinelli is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film. The Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous based media group. Filmmaking provides a means of self-organization and social analysis for the Karrabing. Screenings and publications allow the Karrabing to develop a local artistic languages and forms and allow audiences to understand new forms of collective Indigenous agency. Their medium is a form of survivance – a refusal to relinquish their country and a means of investigating contemporary social conditions of inequality. The films represent their lives, create bonds with their land, and intervene in global images of Indigeneity.
Known for
When the Dogs Talked
Director
Ngupelngamarrunu, Night Time Go
Director
Night Fishing with Ancestors
Director
Day in the Life
Director
Karrabing! Low Tide Turning
Director
The Jealous One
Director
Windjarrameru, the Stealing C*nt$
Director
Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams
Director
The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland
Director
Filmography
- 2023Night Fishing with AncestorsDirector
- 2020Day in the LifeDirector
- 2019The Mermaids, or Aiden in WonderlandDirector
- 2017Wutharr, Saltwater DreamsDirector
- 2017Ngupelngamarrunu, Night Time GoDirector
- 2017The Jealous OneDirector
- 2015Windjarrameru, the Stealing C*nt$Director
- 2014When the Dogs TalkedDirector
- 2012Karrabing! Low Tide TurningDirector
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