“Educate people (by) making videos, broadcasting radio to use Balanda (white) technology for Yolngu rom (culture). But first…you have to start to think and picture it in your mind.”
Bangana Wunungmurra (bahn-gahn-nah wuh-nung-moor-rah)
Yolngu filmmaker
IMAGE SOURCE: Jennifer Deger. “BarkTV: Portrait of an innovator” in “Imaging Identity: Media, memory and portraiture in the digital age.” Edited by Melinda Hinkson. | QUOTE SOURCE: Jennifer Deger. “Shimmering Screens.” U of Minnesota Press, 2006.
QUOTE CONTEXT: Referring to his contemplation of the Broadcasting for Remote Aboriginal Communities Scheme (BRACS), an effort to give Aboriginal people access to and control of their own media at a community level.
QUOTE QUESTION: What are your questions about the use of colonizer technology in service of your culture?
IMAGE CONTEXT: Bangana’s youngest daughter, Lay ‘pu, worked with author Jennifer Dager, to make a digital portrait of herself with her father in the months after his death.
IMAGE QUESTION: How do we honor our relationships with those who have died in ways that will endure?
MEDIA LITERACY CONTEXT: The quote and the image are from two books by a friend.
MEDIA LITERACY QUESTION: How do friendships help us to preserve relationships using media tools including books and film?
LEARN ABOUT BANGANA WUNUNGMURRA’S WORK AND LEGACY. READ THE BOOK, “SHIMMERING SCREENS: MAKING MEDIA IN AN ABORIGINAL COMMUNITY”
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