Wind & Sky ProductionsVal D’Angri – M.A.D.E Digital Stories
Info
Client: Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka
Produced: 2014
Length: 4.32 minutes
In late 1972 high school sewing teacher Val D’Angri was asked to hand stitch the Eureka Flag onto a custom built backing. She undertook the labour intensive restoration work over a two week period in May 1973 in the Oddie Gallery, at the Art Gallery of Ballarat (then known as the Ballarat Fine Art Gallery). In this short film Val recalls what she felt on seeing the flag for the first time, her emotions on touching and restoring the flag, and the hours of back breaking work it took to finish the project. Val argues that the way the flag was constructed points to women having made it. She speculates what life must have been like for those rebellious women in the Spring of Eureka, November 1854.
Wind & Sky Productions produced four short digital stories for the Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka as part of the commemoration of the 160th Anniversary of the Eureka Stockade. The films are on permanent display in the Museum touchtable exhibition.
Screenings
On permanent display, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka, Ballarat.
Credits
- Produced by:
- Jary Nemo and Lucinda Horrocks
- Production Company:
- Wind & Sky Productions
- Directed and edited by:
- Jary Nemo
- Written and researched by:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Featuring:
- Val D’Angri
- Camera and Sound:
- Jary Nemo
- Interviews:
- Lucinda Horrocks
- Artwork:
- ‘The Three Gums’ © Hans Heysen/Licensed by Viscopy, 2014
- Archival images courtesy of:
- Ballarat City Council, Ballarat Historical Society, The Art Gallery of Ballarat, The Ballarat Courier, The Gold Museum, Ballarat, The National Library of Australia, The State Library of Victoria, Val and Norm D’Angri.
- With thanks to:
- Anne Beggs-Sunter, Norm D’Angri, Rita Cousens, Ursula Diamond-Keith, Andrew Eales, Edith Fry, Peter Freund, Claire Gervasoni, Merrilyn Harlock, Julie McLaren, Gordon Morrison, Claire Muir, Leslee Sullivan, Val Stevens and the Art Gallery of Ballarat.
- Commissioned by:
- Jane Smith, Museum of Australian Democracy at Eureka.
- Funded by:
- Victorian Department of Premier and Cabinet.
- Acknowledgement:
- We give thanks to the Wathaurung people of the Kulin Nation, the traditional owners of the land where the Eureka Stockade took place, and pay respect to their Elders past and present.
- Copyright with:
- © M.A.D.E. Ballarat 2014. All rights reserved.
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