{"id":1697,"date":"2012-06-13T11:26:45","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T01:26:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/?p=1697"},"modified":"2013-04-23T17:41:51","modified_gmt":"2013-04-23T07:41:51","slug":"issue-9-documentary-nothing-rhymes-with-ngapartji","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/issue-9-documentary-nothing-rhymes-with-ngapartji\/","title":{"rendered":"Documentary: &#8216;Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5>Documentary &#8216;Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji&#8217;<\/h5>\n<p>The multi-awarded documentary\u00a0<em>Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji<\/em>\u00a0underlines the various temporalities in the contemporary Indigenous culture in Australia. The film project relates the touring of the awarded performance Ngapartji Ngapartji in the Central Desert. We follow the main comedian, Trevor Jamieson, who came back in his home country at Ernabella (South Australia) for a special event.<\/p>\n<p>However the death of the Trevor&#8217;s father, the main character of the play, imposed the team to modify their performance. In these remote areas, the names of recent dead people are banned. The team has to find creative solution to present the show without transgressing some rules.<\/p>\n<p>This connection between the temporal fiction and realities extends to the long time of History and the short time of the personal life of Trevor\u2019s father. For instance, the departure of the Trevor\u2019s father to his homeland dealt with the Maralwinga nuclear test in the end of the 50s. The highly emotive sequence of the play renew in the elders\u2019 memory therefore the individual story becomes the collective history. Moreover, the montage with archives and video record links the past and the present, the fiction and the reality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><span style=\"color: #ff9900; text-decoration: underline;\">More info:<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"color: #ff9900;\">Documentary\u00a0<em>Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji<\/em>, 2010, Directed by Suzy Bates, Produced by Alex Kelly, Michael Watts, Shannon Owen.\u00a0Distributed by Ronin Film<\/span><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Documentary &#8216;Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji&#8217; The multi-awarded documentary\u00a0Nothing Rhymes with Ngapartji\u00a0underlines the various temporalities in the contemporary Indigenous culture in Australia. The film project relates the touring of the awarded performance Ngapartji Ngapartji in the Central Desert. We follow the main comedian, Trevor Jamieson, who came back in his home country at Ernabella (South Australia) [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71],"tags":[51,257,247,99,258,156,259],"class_list":["post-1697","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-chroniques-curatoriales","tag-51","tag-central-desert","tag-chronique-curatoriale","tag-culture","tag-documentary","tag-indigenous","tag-nothing-rhymes-ngapartji"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1697"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2630,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1697\/revisions\/2630"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1697"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1697"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.idaia.com.au\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1697"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}