a powerful, personal portrait of Aboriginal activist and filmmaker Bill Onus
- Written by: Heidi Norman, Professor, Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences, University of Technology Sydney
MIFFReview: Ablaze, directed by Alec Morgan and Tiriki Onus
Opera singer Tiriki Onus comes across a dusty, aged suitcase stowed away in the basement. It belonged to his grandfather, Bill Onus, and contains lots of still images — including young men painted up for Corroboree. Not long after, a reel of film surfaces from another archive. It has...
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