Browndog Australia Arts Projects

Mindfields is a self-regulatory intervention that has been developed by staff at The University of Queensland to help young people take control of their lives and make important day-to-day decisions in a planned and thoughtful way. browndog has sourced and conducted their interviews over the past 6 years for this award winning program, where the interviewees act as virtual mentors to the participants in the program.

mindfields.com.au

Shot on Groote Island, Arhem Land, Australia for The MJD Foundation over 2 weeks in October 2011. I lived in the Angurugu Community to teach MJD clients how to shoot and edit videos on an Ipad2's. They all got an ipad2 in the end for putting up with me for 10 days, lucky buggers. I shot this footage on a Canon 7d and a gopro while out and about with them. If you want to know more about the disease, MJD, which is what these boys have and is a pretty major problem in East Arnhem Land, check out mjd.org.au.
Justin

Presidentsland, from The Queensland Music Festival 2009. Shot, directed and edited by browndog.

qmf.org.au

I filmed this in 2005. never really showed anyone as i did it basically by myself and never got the permissions but everyone was happy for me to shoot them at the time. I am going to risk showing it as a friend Alden (a real fairdinkum aboriginal) came over and I accidently found it on my hard-rive. i really loved it when we shot it back then and do again now, after not seeing to for years.

Anyway, I think it speaks for itself. I don't have the time nor budget to contact everyone in it... and I must say there are quite a few people i have no idea who they are so it will be hard. Thats just what happens when you have a very limited personnel and budget. There are seriously so many amazing names here, it is embarrassing. I am sure they will know who they are. I do know quite a few but won't tag use for now.

For this opening ceremony, I convinced an amazing highly respected cameraman/DOP, Henry, I think he was called, to be second camera. He was real good. Me too!! :)

So this one goes out to all my original aboriginal friends and performers and white ass honky mates too. This is 50,000 years of fuckin good shit eh right here! Enjoy.

Hope you don't mnid... Cliffy, Bill, Noel, Amanda, Rhoda, Edna, George, Damian and everyone else in this video!!

It was just a good snapshot of the time.

I figure it will be pulled down pretty quick due to legal copyrights etc but who knows. Hope it stays for a while. This was, after all the first time Woodford was danced on by its indigenous people for a long time, and the only record of it.

anonymous :)

Filmed at the 2011 Byron Bay Bluesfest featuring the music of Australian band Kooii.

bluesfest.com.au
kooiimusic.com