SYNOPSIS

Marungka Tjalatjunu (Dippedin Black) follows Yankunytjatjara man Derik Lynch’s road trip back to Country for spiritual healing, as memories from his childhood return. A journey from the oppression of white city life in Adelaide, back home to his remote Anangu community Aputula to perform on sacred Inma ground. Inma is a traditional form of storytelling using the visual, verbal, and physical. It is how Anangu Tjukurpa (story connected to country/dreaming/myth/lore) have been passed down for over 60,000+ years from generation to generation. Marungka Tjalatjunu is the first Australian film to win the Silver Bear at Berlinale in history. It is also the first short film to win the Documentary Australia Award the Sydney Film Festival. The film is entirely voiced in Derik’s language Yankunytjatjara, it is the first narrative film of its type to be entirely voiced in language. The film was made with the real Community and family. No professional actors appear in the film other than Derik, who plays himself.

导演介绍：

Derik Lynch is an initiated Yankunytjatjara man born in Alice Springs in 1986. Derik grew up in community between Old Timers Camp, Alice Springs; and remote communities in the Northern Territory and South Australia, including Umoona/Coober Pedy and Aputula/Finke. As a young man, Derik studied in the NT at Yirara College. At 16 he moved to Adelaide with the Wiltja program at Woodville High. After school, Derik joined Carclew Youth Arts as workshop assistant under Lee-Ann Buckskin. Derik then studied with the Centre for Aboriginal Studies in Music at Adelaide University. Derik’s first major production was Of The Future (2008) performed at Tandanya National Aboriginal Cultural Institute. Since then, Derik has been involved as a performer and/or Cultural Advisor in Thalu (2020), DANCERITES (2019), BlackComedy (2018, 2015), DeadlineGallipoli (2014), Namatjira (2013), Hipbone Sticking Out (2013), Pinicchio (2012), and Nyuntu Ngali (2010). Derik has performed around Australia and the world including in at the Southbank Theatre London, Belvoir Street Theatre (Sydney Theatre Company), and the Sydney Opera House. During the London run of Namatjira, Derik was invited for an audience with Queen Elizabeth II. Derik currently lives in Adelaide, South Australia and works as an Artist and Education worker.

Matthew Thorne (b.1993 Adelaide, South Australia) is a filmmaker and artist whose work explores the Australian landscape and its people through film, photography, and reenactment. His latest short film is MarungkaTjalatjunu (2023). Other short and mid-length films include The Sand That Ate The Sea (2020) about the remote Opal mining community of Andamooka SA, and GAIB (2019) a short documentary essay film made with the community of Batu Keras, West Java. Other works include photography for Nick Cave and the Badseed’s album Ghosteen (2019), and Justin Kurzel’s film TrueHistory of The Kelly Gang (2019). He also contributed to Ridley Scott’s Alien: Covenant (2017) as photographer and additional director, and worked with Glendyn Ivin to create the title sequence for his TV series Gallipoli (2015). Recently Matthew’s work has been exhibited at GAG Projects / Greenaway Art Gallery (2023), the Canberra Museum and Gallery with their Sidney Nolan collection (2022), National Portrait Gallery of Australia (2021), National Portrait Gallery London (2020), National Museum of Australia (2020), and the Art Gallery of South Australia (2020), and screened at Berlinale (2023), Sydney Film Festival (2023), and Melbourne International Film Festival (2023). Matthew was also recipient of the Adelaide Film Festival & Samstag Gallery of Art Commission (2022), Australian Directors Guild Award / Music Video (2021), and nominated for the Olive Cotton Award (2023), National Portrait Prize, Australia (2021), and Taylor Wessing Portrait Prize, UK (2020). Matthew currently lives and works between Athens, Berlin, and Australia.