Film shorts featuring three strong Aboriginal women discussing their experiences of consultation and collaboration with non-Indigenous settlers
10 February 2020

The School of Art and members of the public came to the premiere of The power that we have… Listen Up! featuring Gina Bundle, Genevieve Grieves, and Paola Balla. In this short film series, three strong Aboriginal women reflect on and discuss their experiences of community consultation and collaboration with non-Indigenous settler educators and organisations. With extensive experience in the arts community and research practice, each woman recounts their lived experience of ‘so called’ Aboriginal consultation and collaboration and how things can go wrong. Filmed as a series of beautiful portraits with a personal flavour, these women offer generous advice on how we can engage in decolonising practices better as we come to terms with Australia’s colonial past.

These films have been developed as part of project led by Vicki Couzens with Marnie Badham and Jody Haines: Revisiting the Possum Skin Cloaks: Community Stories and Social Impact funded by RMIT’s Strategic Capability Development Fund and supported by CAST research group and the School of Art.

Films created by artist, Jody Haines.