26 minutes to witness Dreamtime itself. These old men are time travelers.
MARLUKU WIRLINYI is a tale of kangaroo hunting that weaves its way through Dreamtime, to the present and back again. A group of old Warlpiri men transport us back to a time of rarely heard history and we follow their journey into the present. Songs, stories and dance relate the importances of the past to the present.
Direction
Collaborative Aboriginal filmmaking approach
Cinematography
Desert landscapes as living spiritual maps
Sound
Songs carrying unbroken millennia of history
Director
Timothy Japangardi Marshall
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Warlpiri people have maintained continuous connection to their Country for over 60,000 years—this film is part of that unbroken chain.
The directors' surnames 'Japangardi' and 'Japangardi' are skin names, not family names—revealing how the film emerges from kinship systems, not individual authorship.
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