A Belgrave Survival Day Fundraising Screening of WINHANGANHA

Location: Wurundjeri Country, Burrinja, 351 Glenfern Rd, Upwey, VIC.

Venue: Burrinja Theatre.

Presented by the National Film and Sound Archive in partnership with the Burrinja Cultural Centre, the Belgrave Survival Day is hosting a fundraising screening of WINHANGANHA.

All proceeds from the fundraiser will go towards engaging First Nations artists and musicians for Belgrave Survival Day.

WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) – is a lyrical journey of archival footage and sound, poetry and original composition. It is an examination of how archives and the legacies of collection affect First Nations people and wider Australia, told through the lens of acclaimed Wiradjuri artist, Jazz Money.

Commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), WINHANGANHA was born from a desire to make sense of the archival inheritances that shape our present realities. Across a two-year period working closely with the NFSA collection Jazz sifted through and reflected on the institution’s extensive collections of works made by and about First Nations Australian people.

Through film, television, audio and music recordings collected since the advent of these technologies, the film is a poem in five acts that attempts to acknowledge the horrors, joys and beauties held within the archive. The film questions power and position, story teller and the stories told. The film includes original poetry written and performed by Jazz and an original score by Filipino- Aboriginal rapper and composer DOBBY (Rhyan Clapham).

WINHANGANHA is centred upon the belief that it is our own bodies that are the truest archive of our experience, and that First Nations bodies tell a powerful story of sovereignty and resistance. And while First Nations bodies have been documented, mythologised, degraded, and catalogued and stored within the colonial gaze of archive, these bodies, these people, have danced and sung and marched and are utterly whole, beyond what can be held in these collections. The film asks how we will create new futures through that which we inherit. Year 2023 (duration 64 minutes) | Language – English | Classification M | Categories – Experimental, Art and Visual Poem.

WINHANGANHA 2023 trailer – supplied by NFSA

Ally Tickets: $20 (pre-sale)
Ally Tickets: $25 (on the evening of the event from 6pm at the box office)
Mob tickets: Free – to arrange your free ticket email survivalday@gmail.com.

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