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A Walk With Words

2000
Streaming Video
The personal and political story of Romaine Moreton, a Goenpul, Yagerabul, Minjungbal, Bundjalung, South Sea Islander poet, performance artist, and philosopher, who uses words to illustrate the plight and beauty of Indigenous survival. A Walk With Words is the personal and political story about Romaine Moreton, a Goenpul, Yagerabul, Minjungbal, Bundjalung, South Sea Islander poet, performance artist, and philosopher, who uses words to illustrate the plight and beauty of Indigenous survival.This documentary is about reclaiming both the oral and aural traditions essential to Indigenous cultural expressions of language. Before the written word was the spoken word, and it is through the power of such words that Romaine Moreton comments, articulates, documents, and celebrates the existence and survival of Indigenous people's storytelling traditions.This documentary is a celebration of the spoken word, and its place in the Indigenous continuum.
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Imprint:
Australia : , 2000.Sydney : Beamafilm Pty. Ltd.
Collation:
1 online resource (streaming video file (27 min.) )
Notes:
Available online at Beamafilm.EnglishDescription based on online resource; title from title screen.
Credits:
Director, Erica Glynn
Performers:
Cast: Cast: Romaine Moreton
Audience:
E Australian Classification BoardE New Zealand Classification BoardU BBFCN/A IFCON/R MPAE MPA Canada
Language:
English
Index terms:
2000sAustraliaNew South WalesPerforming ArtsActivismDiscriminationDisplacementIndigenousPoliticsReconciliationDocumentary
BRN:
815067
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