Directed by Tuan Andrew Nguyen • 2019 • Australia
The large-scale painting known as the Ngurrara Canvas II is many things to many people. But to Australia’s Aboriginal Ngurrara people it is a map, made from memory, of a place where their ancestors lived for over sixty thousand years and a direct connection to their land. Through a past-and-present history of the canvas, WE WERE LOST IN OUR COUNTRY explores questions of personal agency, inherited trauma, and intergenerational transmission, opening up a complex dialogue between ancestors and descendants.
Up Next in Artists on Artists: 12 Short Films Presented by This Long Century
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Bronx, New York, November 2019
Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 2021 • France
Starring Michell SegreKelly Reichardt’s snapshot of artist Michelle Segre at work in her New York City studio captures the creation of her unique, large-scale sculptures made from yarn and wire.
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Cal State Long Beach, CA, January 2020
Directed by Kelly Reichardt • 2021 • France
Starring Jessica Jackson Hutchins, Alexander DemetriouA wordless portrait of sculptor Jessica Jackson Hutchins shows us the artist in the process of transforming clay into uncanny forms.
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For the Time Being
Directed by Deborah Stratman • 2021 • United States
Filmed on and around the Great Salt Lake, Mono Lake, and Meteor Crater, Deborah Stratman’s video letter to trailblazing land artist Nancy Holt pays homage to their shared interests in terminal lakes, framed views, monuments, and time.
