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The evidentiary strategies of Two Laws

Beattie, Keith 2008, The evidentiary strategies of Two Laws, Studies in documentary film, vol. 2, no. 2, pp. 175-183.

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Title The evidentiary strategies of Two Laws
Formatted title The evidentiary strategies of Two Laws
Author(s) Beattie, Keith
Journal name Studies in documentary film
Volume number 2
Issue number 2
Start page 175
End page 183
Publisher Intellect Ltd.
Place of publication Bristol, England
Publication date 2008
ISSN 1750-3280
1750-3299
Keyword(s) evidence
law
cross-cultural collaboration
Aboriginal film-making
Summary This article examines the ways in which the documentary film Two Laws deploys a variety of strategies to represent the historical claim to land made in the early 1980s by the Borroloola people of Australia's Northern Territory. Cross-cultural collaboration between the indigenous people of Borroloola and two non-indigenous film-makers produced a film that combines a vigorous reflexivity with dramatic re-enactment and oral testimony. Importantly, the presentation of evidence in support of the land claim is achieved via a form communally devised by the Borroloola people based on their cultural needs and contingent on Borroloola social structure. In this way the so-called documentary truth claim and indigenous land claim intersect in Two Laws: for the Borroloola people, the filmic evidentiary truth claim functions in a direct way in support of their legal claim to their lands.
Language eng
Field of Research 190201 Cinema Studies
Socio Economic Objective 950205 Visual Communication
HERDC Research category C1 Refereed article in a scholarly journal
Copyright notice ©2008 Intellect Ltd
Persistent URL http://hdl.handle.net/10536/DRO/DU:30022556

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