“You can’t overestimate watching films in Yolŋu language about you, your culture, your language and your life. It is epic.”
—WILL STUBBS
nce upon a time, the archive was quiet; an array of shelves housing documents sorted into discrete and labelled boxes. While The Mulka Project was founded in 2007 to “sustain Yolŋu cultural knowledge”, its archival function has been characterised and extended by digital media, video and moving image—making it a busy, popular place, at the centre of its community in Yirrkala, North East Arnhem Land. A collective of practising multimedia artists, The Mulka Project looks
