The Earth Above: A Deep Time View of Australia’s Epic History
Directed by:
The Ruwe Collective
Country:
Runtime:
28:00
The Earth Above is a fulldome planetarium show from the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence for Australian Biodiversity and Heritage and Deakin MotionLab in collaboration with First Nations communities.
The show explores Australia’s past 140,000 years, incorporating traditional and scientific knowledge to tell Australia’s epic story and transport viewers to four locations: Girraween Lagoon on Larrakia and Wulna Country; Cloggs Cave on GunaiKurnai Country; Lake Mungo in NSW on the land of the Barkandji/Paakantyi, Ngiyampaa and Mutthi Mutthi people; and Jiigurru (Lizard Island) on the Great Barrier Reef, which is sacred to many, including the Dingaal community.
Director:
The Ruwe Collective
The Ruwe Collective is an Australian based collective of Indigenous and non-indigenous filmmakers, Elders, Traditional Owners, storytellers, artists, performers, archaeologists and animators who have come together to create a series of immersive stories that capture the entanglement of emerging archaeological research with Indigenous knowledges. The full-dome planetarium show 'The Earth Above: a deep time view of Australia's epic history' is one of these stories. The Ruwe Collective come from every nation represented in this story - from saltwater country in the far north of Australia to the lakes and mountains of the south.
* 'Ruwe' is a Ngarrindjeri word denoting a central government representing many tribes and it also connotes Country.
