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Title:		"We never had any photos of my family": Archival return, film, and a personal history
Bibliographic Citation:		Fred Myers, Lisa Stefanoff; 2019-10; Kaipuleohone University of Hawai'i Digital Language Archive;http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24885.
Creator:		Fred Myers
		Lisa Stefanoff
Date (W3CDTF):		2019-10
Description:		The film Remembering Yayayi emerged from a project to return raw 16mm film footage shot in 1974 at the early Pintupi outstation of Yayayi, near Papunya, by filmmaker Ian Dunlop, with Fred Myers as translator and consultant. Two subsequent remote Pintupi communities, Kintore and Kiwirrkura, were involved in the footage’s return. The material had not been available for research (or other) purposes until 2005, when VHS copies were made from the workprint deposited in the National Archives of Australia. In 2006, Myers and Stefanoff took this rare historical visual material in Pintupi language to Kintore and Kiwirrkura, showing it to individuals and family groups and holding community screenings. Responses were overwhelmingly positive. The tapes quickly became regular entertainment for patients undergoing lengthy renal dialysis sessions and Myers received multiple requests for copies. Over several years, one of Myers’ long-term Pintupi friends, Marlene Spencer Nampitjinpa, came to provide a moving personal commentary on the footage, enabling a feature documentary to be produced from it. This chapter draws on a conversation with Stefanoff and Myers to reflect on how the repatriation project became a catalyst for memory and produced new Pintupi community historical knowledge, particularly about outstation life, early efforts at developing local forms of self-determination and the transformation of lives and wellbeing over a 40-year period.
Identifier:		Myers, Fred, and Lisa Stefanoff. "'We never had any photos of my family': Archival return, film, and a personal history." In Archival returns: Central Australia and beyond, edited by Linda Barwick, Jennifer Green, and Petronella Vaarzon-Morel, 217–238. LD&C Special Publication 18. Honolulu & Sydney: University of Hawai’i Press & Sydney University Press, 2019. http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24885/.
		978-0-9973295-7-5
Identifier (URI):		http://hdl.handle.net/10125/24885
Publisher:		University of Hawai'i Press
Relation:		LD&C Special Publication 18
Subject:		Pintupi
		memory
		archive
		repatriation
		film
Table Of Contents:		1475 LDC_SP18 11 Myers & Stefanoff_6.pdf
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Citation:		Fred Myers; Lisa Stefanoff. 2019. University of Hawai'i Press.