Screening of two films by Karrabing Film Collective, Australia - Wed 7 Oct 2026, 5–7 p.m., FSM Auditorium, Kane Building B10B

Department of Film and Screen Media Research Seminar Series 2026–27.

In collaboration with: SENSA Lab – Laboratory for Semiotics, Ethnosemiotics, Nonfictional Studies and Audiovisuality MA Anthropology, UCC

Followed by seminar:

Prof. Deane Williams (RMIT, Melbourne)

“Teaching and Researching First Nations Australian Film and Television (for a White Fellah)”

Screening:

A Day in the Life (Karrabing Film Collective, 2020, 32 min)

The Family and the Zombie (Karrabing Film Collective, 2021, 30 min)

Location:

Film and Screen Media Auditorium, Kane Building B10B (Basement)

The Karrabing Film Collective is a grassroots Indigenous-based media group. Filmmaking provides a means of self-organization and social analysis for the Karrabing. Screenings and publications allow the Karrabing to develop a local artistic languages and forms and allow audiences to understand new forms of collective Indigenous agency. Their medium is a form of survivance – a refusal to relinquish their country and a means of investigating contemporary social conditions of inequality. The films represent their lives, create bonds with their land, and intervene in global images of Indigeneity. https://karrabing.info/karrabing-film-collective

Seminar – Abstract: In this presentation, I’ll talk about the issues that arise and complexities involved in my experience of teaching a course on First Nations Australian Film and Television from my perspective as a person of white settler background. I will explore the experience of working, initially, with First Nations administrators and scholars to bring about this initiative, and secondly First Nations and multicultural students in the classroom as well as the screenings and readings that supported the teaching.

Dean Williams is Honorary Associate Professor, RMIT University, Melbourne. He is a scholar working on documentary and Australian film history. Foundation Editor of the journal Studies in Documentary Film and currently Series Editor of Palgrave Studies in Documentary Histories, his books include Australian Film Theory and Criticism. 3Vols. (w. Con Verevis and Noel King eds.), The Grierson Effect: The International Documentary Movement (w. Zoë Druick eds.), The Cinema of Sean Penn: In and Out of Place, Beyond the Essay Film: Subjectivity, Textuality and Technology (w. Julia Vassilieva eds.) and The Intellect Handbook of Documentary (w. Kate Nash eds.). https://deanewilliams.info/

– All welcome –

Department of Film and Screen Media

https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/

SENSA Lab

https://www.ucc.ie/en/fmt/film/research/sensa/