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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Dear Chantal
Directed by Nicolás Pereda • 2021 • Mexico, Spain
Starring Catalina PeredaNicolás Pereda’s playful and moving homage to Chantal Akerman takes the form of a series of letters responding to her imagined inquiry about renting a home in Mexico City.
