
This clip shows historical photographs and drawings of Indigenous and non-Indigenous peoples and townships are intercut with contemporary images of Brisbane.
Summary by Romaine Moreton
Brisbane Dreaming reinstates an Indigenous cultural understanding of what is now Brisbane. An informative documentary, it gives an Indigenous history to the city’s sites and buildings.
This documentary is about the original Indigenous custodians of the Brisbane area.
This well-researched documentary uses historical footage and re-enactments to tell the story of the Indigenous peoples of the Brisbane area. With a well-weighted script, it manages to depict the intimacy with which Indigenous peoples lived in connection with the land and draws on colonial accounts from historical documents without disempowering or demoralising the Indigenous position. The filmmakers weave throughout many different schools of thought – archaeological, anthropological, Indigenous cultural and cosmological views – in order to present Brisbane as a myriad of complex relationships formed by different beliefs and experiences. The filmmakers ask us to 'look around, feel the presence’ that makes up modern-day Brisbane.
Notes by Romaine Moreton
Summary by Romaine Moreton
The National Film and Sound Archive of Australia acknowledges Australia’s Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples as the Traditional Custodians of the land on which we work and live and gives respect to their Elders both past and present.