A NEW DIGITAL ACCESS STUDIO IN ALICE SPRINGS WILL PROVIDE UNPRECEDENTED ACCESS FOR TRADITIONAL OWNERS TO THE LANGUAGE, STORIES AND CEREMONIES OF THEIR COMMUNITIES

Scenes of a camping trip to Alice Springs in the 1950s.

The NFSA celebrates Home Movie Day 2019 by participating in a Home Movie Marathon that also coincides with the World Day for Audiovisual Heritage.

Rachel Perkins, as narrator, and Max Stuart of the Arrernte Luritja Nation, explain the origin of the term ‘the Dreamtime’ and its importance in Arrernte life.

The experience of Tjalkabotta seeing white people for the first time is told through interviews with author Peter Vallee and readings of diary excerpts.

Narrator Rachel Perkins tells the Dreamtime stories of the desert people in Central Australia.