NAIDOC Week 2026 Screening – WINHANGANHA

08 Jul 2026
06:30pm - 08:30pm
$10 | We are proud to offer MobTix for First Nations attendees to this event
The Capitol

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In celebration of NAIDOC 2026: 50 Years of Deadly, join us for a special screening of WINHANGANHA, a visual poem from award-winning Wiradjuri artist and poet Jazz Money.

A feature length cinematic journey made entirely of archival footage, WINHANGANHA (Wiradjuri language: Remember, know, think) celebrates First Nations love, joy and resistance.

Commissioned by the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA), Jazz Money's film interrogates the archive held within the body of individuals and communities against the body of archives held in the national collection.

It includes original poetry written and performed by Jazz and an original score by Filipino-Aboriginal rapper and composer DOBBY (Rhyan Clapham).

This special screening will be followed by an in conversation with the filmmaker Jazz Money and Dr Kat Nelligan, proud Gamilaraay woman and Lecturer in Music Industry at RMIT.

"WINHANGANHA was made for our community, it was made by our community ... After every screening that I attend, different folk come up to me and tell me about their relationship to the footage in the film, the protests that the Auntys marched in, the stations the Uncles worked at, the grandkids remembering old songs, folk connecting with the epic original score by DOBBY, and all the many ways we as Blakfullas locate ourselves in place and time, up there on the screen." – Jazz Money

Please be advised that this page may contain names, images and voices of deceased Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander people.

Runtime: 64 minutes

WINHANGANHA is classified M (Mature).

Presented by RMIT University

More about the film

WINHANGANHA was born from a desire to make sense of the archival inheritances that shape our present realities. Across a two-year period working closely with the NFSA collection, Jazz Money sifted through and reflected on the institution's extensive collections of works made by and about First Nations Australian people.

Through film, television, audio and music recordings collected since the advent of these technologies, the film is a poem in five acts that attempts to acknowledge the horrors, joys and beauties held within the archive.

The film questions power and position, storyteller and the stories told. It includes original poetry written and performed by Jazz and an original score by Filipino-Aboriginal rapper and composer DOBBY (Rhyan Clapham).

WINHANGANHA is centred upon the belief that it is our own bodies that are the truest archive of our experience, and that First Nations bodies tell a powerful story of sovereignty and resistance.

And while First Nations bodies have been documented, mythologised, degraded and catalogued and stored within the colonial gaze of archive, these bodies, these people, have danced and sung and marched and are utterly whole, beyond what can be held in these collections.

The film asks how we will create new futures through that which we inherit.

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NAIDOC Week 2026 Screening – WINHANGANHA