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Penan at Home in Miri
Posted: Jan 10, 2012 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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Miri, the nearest city, provides the closest hospital to all the indigenous communities of the Ulu Baram, Sarawak. The Penan of Long Kerong, upper Ulu Baram, have squatted in two rundown timber cottages for over 20 years. Read more…
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The Bidayuh and the Dam (Extended Version)
Posted: Dec 22, 2011 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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Sarawak is one of two Malaysian states on the island of Borneo and is home to more than 40 unique sub-ethnic groups, or Dayaks. These include traditional forest communities such as the Penan, Iban, Bidayuh, Kenyah and Kelabit. The Bidayuh of Bengoh are one of a number of communities facing eviction to make way for the controversial Bengoh Dam. Read more…
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BAMIYARRA Trailer
Posted: Dec 12, 2011 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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Young Hazara in both Melbourne and abroad collaborate to produce a micro-docs series, a video installation, public screenings and exhibitions, mentored by media artists and creative producers. Bamiyarra will be on screen at the Emerge Festival - Melbourne CBD - in June 2012 and on site at Signal - Southbank Melbourne - in August 2012. Read more…
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Barbara Tyrrell - on motivation and origins
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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The legendary South African artist, Barbara Tyrrell, talks about her motivations and describes an event that inspired her life's work - she was three years old at the time. Read more…
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Bird Man of Long Banga
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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Actually, he's a driver... I asked, "Are there sounds from the forest you no longer hear? Sounds you were familiar with that you just don't hear any more?" He described a soundscape of birds, where they would make certain sounds and during which season. Read more…
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The last generations
Posted: Oct 04, 2011 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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As forest cultures endure the loss of the customary lands, their elders suffer the realisation that theirs is the last generation to remember everything... Read more…
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Victim Testimonial: Tunaliwor Kiwo
Posted: May 18, 2011 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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West Papuan farmer Tunaliwor Kiwo recounts the details of his torture by Indonesian soldiers on 30 May 2010. Testimonial trailer produced for the Human Rights Arts and Film Festival 2011. Read more…
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The Sape Master
Posted: Apr 15, 2011 by toysatellite with 1 comments
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Seven generations of music are said to be held by a Sape master living in the Bakun Dam resettlement scheme, 180km southeast of Bintulu, Sarawak, East Malaysia. The Sape is one of the more well known traditional instruments of Sarawak, but few remain who can perform the music of former generations and in the style that represents that heritage. Read more…
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The Headman (EN)
Posted: Oct 14, 2010 by toysatellite with 2 comments
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On the 23 October 2007 Kelesau Naan, the Headman of the Penan village, Long Kerong, left his wife at a rest area in the forest to check on his traps. He never returned. Two months later his remains were found scattered across the Segita River, deep in the Ulu Baram, Sarawak. Read more…
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The Forest and the Dam
Posted: May 31, 2010 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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In episode two of "Sarawak Gone - THE DAM" we review the Environment Impact Assessment prepared prior to construction of the Bengoh Dam. We look at the anticipated loss of habitat and the inundation of protected and endangered species. Read more…
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We Can't Eat The Road
Posted: May 31, 2010 by toysatellite with 1 comments
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Bidayuh travel to the Bakun Dam resettlement scheme and hear from the resettled Kenyah at Sungai Asap about their experiences and see first hand the results of resettlement. They also meet with Iban at Rumah Agi who fought to retain customary right to their own land in the face of palm oil exploitation. Episode three of "The Dam" from the micro-docs series, Sarawak Gone. Read more…
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SARAWAK GONE - Trailer 01
Posted: Jan 07, 2010 by toysatellite with 1 comments
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Sarawak Gone - the last forest communities of Sarawak struggle to maintain customary rights to land - a micro-docs series. Presented by Andrew Garton in association with SACCESS. Released online, February 2010. Read more…
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The Bidayuh and the Dam
Posted: Dec 29, 2009 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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The Bidayuh, one of more than 40 sub-ethnic groups in Sarawak, face a threat to their livelihood, traditional lands and culture with the development of the controversial Bengoh Dam. Twelve more dams are proposed for Sarawak and tens of thousands of forest people are likely to be displaced. Not only are the last forest communities of Borneo losing access to their ancestral lands, the world is losing some of the last rainforests that remain in Asia. Read more…
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TONG TANA - Free of Sin
Posted: Aug 26, 2009 by toysatellite with 1 comments
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TONG TANA (Penan for “into the forest”) is a series of metaphorical stories inspired by the diminishing forests of the world, deep concerns on their rapid urbanisation and the dispossession from land that troubles the remaining forested countries. TONG TANA draws direct influence from the indigenous peoples of Sarawak (one of two states of Malaysia on the island of Borneo), struggling to maintain their customary right to the land they inhabit, feed themselves from and protect. Read more…
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NOTHINGKNOWN
Posted: May 22, 2009 by toysatellite with 1 comments
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NOTHINGKNOWN is a quasi anthropological study of loss of culture, tradition and native title within the indigenous Diaspora of Sarawak, Malaysia. Read more…
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Timor Mass
Posted: May 12, 2008 by toysatellite with 1 comments
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Written and produced in memory of those who suffered and perished during the Indonesian occupation of East Timor. The midnight mass that appears on this piece was recorded on the eve of the millennium. Timor Mass was produced for Undercurrents which was commissioned for the opening of the 2001 Taipei International Arts Festival. Read more…
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GRIT #01
Posted: Dec 31, 2006 by toysatellite with 0 comments
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A photo, video and sound collage (remix) produced for ccSalon, Brisbane, November 2006. Read more…
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