‘This Land is Mine | This Land is Me’ brings together a collection of films that explore how we view and engage with the natural world.
The program considers the philosophy and politics of land ownership and the balance between exploitation, cultivation and sustainability. The program is presented across four interweaving strands – Connection, Transition, Consequence and Revelation. It features powerful stories of the human experience of landscape and reveals some of the distinct ways in which nature has been characterised in art and cinema.
The title of the project is taken from the lyrics to a song by musicians Paul Kelly and Kev Carmody written for the film One Night the Moon 2001. In the song two characters sing of their deep and vastly different connection to the same piece of land. Kelly, in the character of a white settler sings of his toil farming his hard-earned land while Carmody, as an Indigenous tracker, sings of his sacred, abiding connection to the landscape. The two men’s voices come together to sing the same line – “they won’t take it away from me.”
FOOD & FILM: GOOD THINGS AWAIT
4.30pm Sat 3 Dec 2016 / Cinema A
Dinner from $70 | Member $63
Free screening 4:30pm | Followed by dinner 6:05pm, reservations required
Put the environment on your plate with this special screening and dining experience. A screening of the Danish documentary Good Things Await 2014 on farmer Neils Stockholm, who supplies world leading restaurant Noma, will be followed by a specially themed two course meal at the GOMA Restaurant.
EFFECTING CHANGE: FILMMAKING AND POLITICS
2.30pm Sun 19 Feb 2017 / Cinema A / Free
Panellists from the frontlines of environmental and social change discuss how their approaches contribute to public dialogue about land stewardship and corporate land use.
WHAT IS YOUR SACRED SPACE?
1.00pm Sun 26 Feb 2017 / Cinema A / Free
Join our panel as they discuss the places that are restorative, inspiring and important to them and explore the way landscape is an integral part of cultural connection and contemplation.
CONNECTION
Showcases the relationship between humans and their immediate environment and the way landscape influences the bonds we forge with each other. In this group of films, the natural world creates a spaciousness that allows for the characters to experience a deepening connection to self, to each other and the land.
TRANSITION
Focuses on formidable landscapes that affect the people moving through them. This strand includes migration and the vastness of place.
CONSEQUENCE
Explores tensions involving the natural world, including humanity’s domination of the environment (to its detriment and our own) and the struggles of land ownership, contested resources and land rights. This strand of films also investigates our anxieties about an uncertain future due to environmental imbalance, and the experiences of people already living with the consequences of climate change.
REVELATION
Brings together films that use elements of the natural world to express the metaphysical and the ineffable. Nature provides a symbolic language for conveying the sublime or mysterious in narratives that examine our place in the material and spiritual worlds.
This Land is Mine | This Land is Me
3 December 2016 – 26 February 2017
GoMA, Brisbane
www.qagoma.qld.gov.au
