The Desert Dreamers
The Red Centre of Australia is virtually unpopulated, yet this vast desert wilderness is the home of an extraordinary art movement. The paintings it produces look like 20th-century abstracts from Europe and America, and they are being exhibited in galleries throughout the world. But the people who paint them are desert Aborigines, some of whom have had involvement with the white world for less than a generation.
The paintings are symbols of the confused and changing times their creators are living through. They are starting to reject life in the white man's settlement and are re-establishing themselves in their desert homelands.
Narrator COLIN BLAKELY
Film editor PAM BOSWORTH Producer GEOFF DUNLOP
Series editors MICHAEL ANDREWS and ANTHONY ISAACS