{"title":"William Lempert","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWilliam Lempert\u003c\/strong\u003e offers readers a vivid exploration of arts and culture through his evocative storytelling. His works, such as \u003cem\u003eDreaming Down the Track\u003c\/em\u003e, beautifully capture the nuances of creative expression and the landscapes that inspire it.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eExpect a thoughtful journey into the intersections of place, memory, and artistic vision, where Lempert’s prose invites reflection on how culture shapes and is shaped by the world around us.\u003c\/p\u003e","products":[{"product_id":"dreaming-down-the-track-by-william-lempert-9781517918279","title":"Dreaming Down the Track","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWhat can Aboriginal filmmaking reveal about Indigenous presence and futures?\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe product of years of embedded fieldwork within Indigenous film crews in Northwestern Australia, \u003ci\u003eDreaming Down the Track\u003c\/i\u003e delves deeply into Aboriginal cinema as a transformative community process. It follows the social lives of projects throughout their production cycles, from planning and editing to screening, broadcasting, and after-images. Across its narrative sweep, this ethnography engages the film career of Kukatja elder Mark Moora to demonstrate the impact of filmmaking on how Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eWilliam Lempert highlights a series of awakenings through which Moora ultimately came to view cinema as a process for catalysing his family’s return to their home country of Mangkayi. This biographical media journey paints an intimate portrait of the inspiring possibilities and sobering limitations of Indigenous envisioning within settler states. Lempert traces how Moora’s life and films convey a multiplicity of Aboriginal experiences across time and space, from colonial contact to contemporary life in communities like Balgo, including the continued governmental attempts to undermine them.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eAmid ongoing negotiations to establish the first treaties between Indigenous nations and Australian states, \u003ci\u003eDreaming Down the Track\u003c\/i\u003e illustrates what is at stake in how Aboriginal–State relations are represented and understood, both within communities and for the broader public. Lempert stays true to Moora’s insight that film can preserve community stories for generations to come, toward the aim of enacting sovereign futures.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"NewSouth Books","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67708914204908,"sku":"9781517918279","price":54.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9781517918279-dreaming-down-the-track-1.jpg?v=1791839334"}],"url":"https:\/\/bookhero.pro\/collections\/william-lempert.oembed","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}