VR WAUMANANYI: the song on the wind
Duration | 13 minutes
Country | Australia
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Based on traditional tjukurpa mungangka wangkapai – a well-known story, usually told at night,
- Producers
- Jill Bennett, Angela Lynch and Lisa Stefanoff
- Production Design
- Uti Kulintjaku
- Country
- Australia
- Year
- 2019
- Duration
- 13 minutes
before sleep.
A good man, a husband and provider, goes hunting one day and chases an animal into a hollow log,
where he becomes hopelessly stuck. While wailing and singing, he manages to hobble back to his two wives, who are baffled by the sound coming from the advancing log. When they realise their husband is inside, they fling themselves about in grief and try to free him. Failing this, they squeeze water-soaked grass through a small opening so he can drink, and then lead and carry him in search of a ngangkari powerful enough to set him free. After much difficulty and the efforts of several ngangkari, the log is cracked to reveal the shrunken, emaciated body of the husband. With the care of his wives and the advice of the healers, he is slowly restored. The Uti Kulintjaku [UK] is an innovative, Aboriginal-led mental health literacy project that takes its name from a Pitjantjatjara phrase that means ‘to listen, think and understand clearly’
