Karrabing Film Collective
Karrabing Film Collective, The Family and the Zombie, 2021. View from the Pedestrian area, Ortisei. Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Karrabing is an Emmiyengal word referring to the point at which the tide has reached its lowest point. Karrabing is not a clan, not a language group, not a nation. It is an aspiration for a world in which its Indigenous members control their lands, imaginations, pasts and futures. Despite their strangeness allure, all Karrabing Film Collective films are based on real events in which past, present and future are implicated into one another, exploring the multiple demands and inescapable vortexes of contemporary indigenous life. Karrabing shoot on portable, phone cameras and work without a script, fashioning the rough plot of each film during group conversations. Karrabing’s most recent film, The Family and the Zombie, 2021, opens with future ancestors digging yams and their children playing in lush green overgrowth. What opens as a fairly innocent scene turns into a commentary on the toxic dangers of unbridled Western consumption… In Karrabing’s words, “Alternating between contemporary time in which Karrabing members struggle to maintain their physical, ethical and ceremonial connections to their remote ancestral lands, and a future populated b ancestral beings living in the aftermath of toxic capitalism and white zombies, The Family mixes comedy, tragedy and realism to reflect on the practices of the present and their impact on worlds to come.”
Karrabing Film Collective
Karrabing Film Collective, The Family and the Zombie, 2021. View from the Pedestrian area, Ortisei. Biennale Gherdëina ∞. Ph. Tiberio Sorvillo
Karrabing is an Emmiyengal word referring to the point at which the tide has reached its lowest point. Karrabing is not a clan, not a language group, not a nation. It is an aspiration for a world in which its Indigenous members control their lands, imaginations, pasts and futures. Despite their strangeness allure, all Karrabing Film Collective films are based on real events in which past, present and future are implicated into one another, exploring the multiple demands and inescapable vortexes of contemporary indigenous life. Karrabing shoot on portable, phone cameras and work without a script, fashioning the rough plot of each film during group conversations. Karrabing’s most recent film, The Family and the Zombie, 2021, opens with future ancestors digging yams and their children playing in lush green overgrowth. What opens as a fairly innocent scene turns into a commentary on the toxic dangers of unbridled Western consumption… In Karrabing’s words, “Alternating between contemporary time in which Karrabing members struggle to maintain their physical, ethical and ceremonial connections to their remote ancestral lands, and a future populated b ancestral beings living in the aftermath of toxic capitalism and white zombies, The Family mixes comedy, tragedy and realism to reflect on the practices of the present and their impact on worlds to come.”