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Karrabing Film Collective

Karrabing Film Collective is a group of Aboriginal Australian film-makers whose work has rapidly risen to national and international prominence through their innovative cinema style of ‘improvisational realism’. In this mode, the group collectively scripts and improvises characters based upon their own lives and experiences as a way of narrating the current status and challenges of Aboriginal worlds. Most Karrabing live in a rural Indigenous community in the Northern Territory, Australia, with low or no income. The e-flux special issue #58 (2014) was dedicated to the ‘quasi-event’ as it appears in the film-making of the Karrabing, and was co-edited by Karrabing member Elizabeth A. Povinelli. Nominated by curator Vivian Ziherl, the Karrabing Film Collective won the prestigious 2015 Visible Award, juried at the TATE Liverpool, and supported by Fondazione Pistoletto and Fondazione Zegna.