“The Worlds We Stitch Together”, live-action/Stop-Motion collaborative piece for Wynyard train station, sydney - 2017. Made in Mparntwe (Alice Springs, NT) in collaboration with Yarrenyty Arltere Artists, Aboriginal Art-Centre.

Commissioned by Cultural Capital for Wynyard Walk, Wynyard Station, Sydney, to Yarrenyty Altere Artists, Alice Springs, I worked with the artists, who provided the three ideas that became the three parts of this 4 minutes 30 seconds video mural: bush tucker collection; Kungka Mamus (wild female spirits who roam around the bush at nights and it's said they can steal your babies); and flying a bird sculpture, like kite. The artists of Yarrenyty Altere created the characters as soft sculptures and performed as actors in the live-action parts. The direction, animation, set design and post-production are mine. Shown at "Wynscreen", the 23x3 metres colour LED screen at Wynyard Walk, Wynyard Station, Sydney, in September 2017 and June 2018.

Co-Author Leonardo Ortega (film director, animator, Periphery Media’s owner) was invited to take this work to a Sociology International Conference in Santiago, Chile, in November 2017, KCE2017, Knowledge/Culture/Ecologies, by Western Sydney University (Australia) and Diego Portales University (Chile), with academics and cultural producers from all over the world.

Production Credits

• Producer: Yarrenyty Arltere Artists

• Director, Cinematographer, Sets, Animation: Leonardo Ortega

• Original Storyline: Trudy Inkamala, Marlene Rubuntja, Dulcie Sharpe

• Cultural Advisors: Trudy Inkamala, Marlene Rubuntja, Dulcie Sharpe, Mervyn Rubuntja

• Soft sculptures, additional props: Trudy Inkamala, Marlene Rubuntja, Rosabella Ryder, Dulcie Sharpe, Dulcie Raggett, Rhonda Sharpe, Maurice Petrick, Cornelius Ebatarinja, Roxanne Petrick, Louise Robertson

• Artists performing as themselves: Marlene Rubuntja, Dulcie Raggett, Rhonda Sharpe, Rosabella Ryder, Sharee Inkamala

• Yarrenyty Arltere Artists Coordinator: Sophie Wallace

• Assistant set builders: Maurice Petrick, Cornellious Ebatarinja

• Additional set dressing and production ssistance: Parris Dewhurst, Maurice Petrick, Tyrone Wallace, J9 Stanton

• Post-production, Composite: Leonardo Ortega

• Post-production Assistants: Parris Dewhurst, Christopher Fitzpatrick

• Filmmaking and animation trainee: Maurice Petrick