This Super 8 film captures Double Our Numbers, a landmark of Australian feminist art by Frances Phoenix, created for the 1983 Women’s Peace Camp outside the American-Australian base at Pine Gap. The footage shows hundreds of self-portrait banners contributed by women around Australia being carried in procession to the base and laid against the fences.

Phoenix initiated the project while in Alice Springs in 1982, rallying women nationwide to participate, whether symbolically or physically. Organised by the Women for Survival coalition, the camp drew 800 participants in November 1983. Through Double Our Numbers, women who couldn’t attend sent painted banners to stand in their place.

Most banners have since been lost, making this footage and surviving photographs a vital record of both the artwork and the protest.