My Survival as an Aboriginal (1979)
- Directed by
- Essie Coffey
- Genre
- documentary film
- Country
- Australia
- Runtime
- 51 min
- Rated
- PG
- Elsewhere
- IMDb
The catalogue in 3D
The film shelves have a room of their own that you can walk around in. The cat behind the counter is the AI Catbot, and they pick real films from the same catalogue when you tell them what you feel like watching. Nothing is for sale, here or in there. Go in from here and this film is already out on the counter, with more like it waiting on the shelf next to it.
How it feels
An Aboriginal woman tells her own story of living on a mission in rural New South Wales. She speaks about her family and community, and their effort to hold onto their culture despite pressure to assimilate into white Australian society.
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What happens
My Survival as an Aboriginal is a 1979 Australian documentary film directed by Essie Coffey, and produced by Coffey, Alec Morgan, and Martha Ansara. It was the first documentary directed by an Aboriginal woman, and was screened at several international film festivals, winning awards at some of them. The central themes of the film include Indigenous land rights in Australia, and the determination not to assimilate into white Australian culture, but to keep Aboriginal culture alive. A sequel, My Life as I Live It, was released in 1993. My Survival as an Aboriginal continues to be screened at international film festival retrospectives and themed series, as well as at local venues and on television in Australia. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)
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Now You're Talking (1979)- More like this film, on a shelf you can walk up to.It's the lit case on the top shelf.