The evidentiary strategies of Two Laws
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01/01/2008
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Resumo |
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 <i>Two Laws</i>: for the Borroloola people, the filmic evidentiary truth claim functions in a direct way in support of their legal claim to their lands.<br /> |
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eng |
Publicador |
Intellect Ltd. |
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http://dro.deakin.edu.au/eserv/DU:30022556/beattie-theevidentiarystrategies-2008.pdf http://dx.doi.org/10.1386/sdf.2.2.175_7 |
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2008, Intellect Ltd |
Palavras-Chave | #evidence #law #cross-cultural collaboration #Aboriginal film-making |
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Journal Article |