Elizabeth Povinelli
- Directing
- February 3, 1962 · Buffalo, New York, USA
Biography
Povinelli is one of the founding members of the Karrabing Film. 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.
Known for
Filmography
- Night Fishing with Ancestors · Director
- Day in the Life · Director
- The Mermaids, or Aiden in Wonderland · Director
- Wutharr, Saltwater Dreams · Director
- Ngupelngamarrunu, Night Time Go · Director
- The Jealous One · Director
- Windjarrameru, the Stealing C*nt$ · Director
- When the Dogs Talked · Director
- Karrabing! Low Tide Turning · Director