• Director(s):

    DHELSING (MARIE-DOMINIQUE)

  • Territories:

    Worldwide.

  • Production year:

    2002

  • Language(s):

    German, French

  • Rights:

    NON-THEATRICAL, TV, VOD, DVD, INTERNET

The art of the Australian Aborigines is one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world to have survived uninterrupted to this day, but it is only recently that it has received international attention.

The art of the Australian Aborigines is one of the oldest artistic traditions in the world to have survived uninterrupted to this day, but it is only recently that it has received international attention.
Archaeological evidence suggests that Aboriginal wall-paintings were carried out 50,000 years ago in the escarpments of Arnhem Land, earlier even than the European Palaeolithic cave-paintings at Altamira and Lascaux.
On scales of eucalyptus bark, Aboriginal painters represent the spiritual concept of the Dream-Time.
The "Mimi" Spirits of Australian mythology permeate rock-walls, body-painting and bark-painting and the same life suffuses the skin of the Earth, human skin and the pollen-scattered skin of plants.