Karrabing! Low Tide Turning

In the Northern Territory of Australia, an extended Indigenous family attempts to track down a missing family member so as not to loose their government housing. As they move back and forth between the suburban ghetto where they live and a remote landscape where they are trying to establish an outstation, they run up against the everyday obstacles of structural and racialized poverty.

Karrabing! Low Tide Turning is a grassroots film, conceived and written by the Karrabing Indigenous Corporation, that seeks to capture the complex contours and settings of Australian Indigenous life beyond prevalent stereotypes of “authentic” mythological primitives or assimilated, urban, drug-addled welfare recipients.

Low TIde Turning captures the awkward hope for contemporary spaces of Indigenous life where dreams are many, humor abundant, but social and personal success is often measured by nothing more than the resilience of making it through the day.

Cast and crew

Angie LEWIS, Cecilia LEWIS, Rex EDMUNDS Linda YARROWIN, Rex SING, Shannon SING, Robyn LANE, Trevor BIANAMU, Ricky BIANAMU, Sherri BIANAMU, Gavin BIANAMU, Taleesh BIANAMU, Marcia BIGFOOT, Kelvin BIGFOOT, Ryan BIGFOOT, Sharon LANE, Serina Lane, Daphne YARROWIN, Ethan YARROWIN, Sandra YARROWIN, Roger YARROWIN, Claude YARROWIN, Paul LANE CREW Directors: Liza Johnson and Elizabeth A. Povinelli, Karrabing Member; Scriptwriter: Karrabing Indigenous Corporation; Producer: Tess Lea; Director of Photography: Tim Wood; Sound Recordist: Ian Redfearn

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