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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Interrogating Western Media Art Forms in
<i>One Billion Beats</i> (2016)<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Date Friday 2 December 2016<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Time 5.00pm – 6:30pm, followed by drinks<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Location Monash Law Chambers</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">555 Lonsdale Street, Melbourne <o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Dr Romaine Moreton 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 The Farm (2009) and The Oysterman (2012), and is currently working on three feature films.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">In this lecture she will discuss the historicising of Indigenous family storytelling and interrogation of western media art forms performed by her in her new transmedia project “One Billion
Beats” -- 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">One Billion Beats 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. Using a Decolonising framework to interrogate Australian cinematic archive, One Billion Beats 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Moreton’s voice will resonate with you long after the show has ended:<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">“We are here and we are many,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">And we shall surprise you by our will,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">We
shall rise from this place where you expect</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">To keep us down,</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:"MS Mincho"">
</span><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">And
we shall surprise you by our will.”<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">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<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><span style="font-size:11.0pt;font-family:Times">Romaine Moreton was appointed as a Research Fellow/Filmmaker-in-Residence in the
<a href="http://artsonline.monash.edu.au/mfj/">School of Media, Film and Journalism at Monash University</a> 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.<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00006D">Chris Healy</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00006D">School of Culture and Communication</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class="MsoNormal" align="right" style="text-align:right"><span style="font-size:9.0pt;font-family:"Times New Roman";color:#00006D">The University of Melbourne</span><span style="font-family:Cambria;color:black"><o:p></o:p></span></p>
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