Autonomia Maró Fábio Márcio Alkmin
Restoring the Spirit Lisa Palmer
ABYSSAL Pedro F Neto & João Baptista
Beyond the Dam's Reservoir W. Nathan Green & Polen Ly
Student Hunger: A Silent Crisis Jane Dyson & Kate Jessop
Örö Rob St John
Droughtlands Anjali Jayakumar, Omkar Khandagale & Aditya Thakkar
2021 Program
Healing Fire Yanama budyari gumada research collective
A Millennia of Seepage Amelia Hine
Workers Jay Gearing & Ben Rogaly
Spirit Jane Dyson & Ross Harrison
Nadirah: Coal Woman Negar Elodie Behzadi & Kate Jessop
Withering Refuge Pedro F Neto
Tidal Choreography Gina Moore & Michele Lobo
Posthuman Landscapes Candice Boyd & Elizabeth Straughan
Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste Lisa Palmer & Susanna Barnes
Water at the Margins Maria Rusca
Drum Village Primary School Vickie Zhang
Losing Ground Holding Place Iqbal Barkat, Richie Howitt, Kath McLachlan, Garima Misra, Nathan Moulds, Phillip Osborne & Matalena Tofa
Restoring the Spirit Lisa Palmer
ABYSSAL Pedro F Neto & João Baptista
Beyond the Dam's Reservoir W. Nathan Green & Polen Ly
Student Hunger: A Silent Crisis Jane Dyson & Kate Jessop
Örö Rob St John
Droughtlands Anjali Jayakumar, Omkar Khandagale & Aditya Thakkar
2021 Program
PLACE, LABOUR AND BELONGING
Healing Fire Yanama budyari gumada research collective
A Millennia of Seepage Amelia Hine
Workers Jay Gearing & Ben Rogaly
Spirit Jane Dyson & Ross Harrison
Nadirah: Coal Woman Negar Elodie Behzadi & Kate Jessop
Withering Refuge Pedro F Neto
Tidal Choreography Gina Moore & Michele Lobo
Posthuman Landscapes Candice Boyd & Elizabeth Straughan
Holding Tightly: Custom and Healing in Timor-Leste Lisa Palmer & Susanna Barnes
Water at the Margins Maria Rusca
Drum Village Primary School Vickie Zhang
Losing Ground Holding Place Iqbal Barkat, Richie Howitt, Kath McLachlan, Garima Misra, Nathan Moulds, Phillip Osborne & Matalena Tofa
IAG Film Shorts is a screening event showcasing films made by geographers.
Losing Ground Holding Place
Iqbal Barkat, Richie Howitt, Kath McLachlan, Garima Misra, Nathan Moulds, Phillip Osborne & Matalena Tofa
Losing Ground Holding Place is the story of a community that lived in a chaotic, contested and difficult situation within a public housing estate in the suburbs of a global city and yet emerged spiritually rich, generous and connected. The film is about how a social housing estate became a home for its residents – a place of safety, refuge, recognition and shared belonging that made it a successful account of place-making. Despite its success the community was eventually unable to protect itself and succumbed to redevelopment to meet the economic and planning imperatives of the state government.
Iqbal Barkat is a digital artist and filmmaker. He also teaches screen production at Macquarie University, Sydney. Iqbal was born in Singapore and began his career as a theatre director. After his move to Australia he became a proponent and practitioner of community and participatory arts. He is currently completing an observational documentary of a primary school community in Western Sydney.