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<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:myriadpro;color:rgb(0,121,231)">Date </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:myriadpro">Friday 2 December 2016<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:myriadpro;color:rgb(0,121,231)">Time </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:myriadpro">5.00pm – 6:30pm, followed by drinks<br></span></p>
<p><span style="font-size:14pt;font-family:myriadpro;color:rgb(0,121,231)">Location </span><span style="font-size:12pt;font-family:myriadpro">Monash Law Chambers<br>
555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne </span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:times new roman,serif"><font size="4"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)">You are warmly invited to attend a public lecture by acclaimed
film-maker and scholar, Dr Romaine Moreton, entitled <b>“Interrogating Western
Media Art Forms in <i>One Billion Beats </i>(2016)”</b>, presented by Monash Arts and the School of Media, Film and Journalism.<br></span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2">
</font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"><span style="line-height:115%;color:rgb(34,34,34)"> </span></font></span></p><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><font size="2"></font></span><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%">Dr Romaine Moreton</span><span style="line-height:115%">
<span lang="EN-US">is Goenpul Jagara of Stradbroke Island and Bundjulung of
northern New South Wales. An internationally recognised writer of poetry, prose
and film, she has published over 100 poems, prose and short stories and three
anthologies of her poetry. She has also written and directed two short films,
the award winning <i>The Farm</i> (2009) and <i>The Oysterman</i> (2012), and
is currently working on three feature films. </span></span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"> </span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">In
this lecture she will </span><span style="line-height:115%">discuss the historicising of Indigenous
family storytelling and interrogation of western media art forms performed by
her in her new </span><span style="line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">transmedia
project “<i>One Billion Beats</i>” -- co-written and co-directed with Alana
Valentine, music and sound design by Dr Lou Bennett, and visual artistry by
Sean Bacon; staged earlier this year at Campbelltown Art Centre, NSW to sold
out audiences. </span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">One Billion Beats</span></i><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"> is a multi-disciplinary work for performance presentation.
Combining spoken word poetry, contemporary theatre techniques, music, song, and
audio visual imagery, it is an excavation of historical cinematic
representation of Aboriginal people in Australian film, interlaced with an
autobiographical reflection by Moreton on her experience of being both hostage
to and liberated from the constraints of Western paradigms in relation to
Indigenous identity.</span><span style="line-height:115%"> Using a Decolonising framework to
interrogate Australian cinematic archive, <i>One Billion Beats</i> examines the
colonial gaze and dissects colonial cinematic representations of the Indigenous
body to assert new frames of understanding by engaging with works held at the
Australian National Film and Sound Archive. </span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%"> </span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-left:36pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black">Long after I
experienced it, One Billion Beats continues to resound with the beating of
hearts, poems and music, its engaging performer sharing with us her distinctive
life, deep feelings and her intellectual challenge to racism. Realtime,
Review. </span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black"> </span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt 36pt;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Moreton’s voice will resonate with you
long after the show has ended:</span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt 72pt;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><i><span style="line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">“We are here and we are many,</span></i><span style="line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US"><br>
<i>And we shall surprise you by our will,</i><br>
<i>We shall rise from this place where you expect</i><br>
<i>To keep us down,</i><br>
<i>And we shall surprise you by our will.”</i></span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin:0cm 0cm 7.5pt 36pt;line-height:115%;background:white none repeat scroll 0% 0%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%;color:black" lang="EN-US">Bravo Moreton. Bravo Campbelltown Arts
Centre… This work is a testament to the one billion people that walked this
country before 1788, to their personal stories and resilience. I stand and
applaud it. FBI Radio Review </span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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</span></font><p class="MsoNormal" style="margin-bottom:24pt;line-height:115%"><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif"><span style="line-height:115%" lang="FR">Romaine Moreton </span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US">was appointed as a Research
Fellow/Filmmaker-in-Residence in the </span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="FR"><a href="http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/mfj/" target="_blank"><span style="color:blue;text-decoration:none" lang="EN-US">School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University</span></a></span><span style="line-height:115%" lang="EN-US"> in 2014. She is currently working with Therese Davis
(Monash) and Chris Healy (University of Melbourne) on the ARC-funded project:
“Australian Film and Television: New Frames of Understanding.” She is also
developing three feature film projects. </span><span style="line-height:115%"></span></span></font></p><font size="2"><span style="font-family:arial,helvetica,sans-serif">
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