Comparing languages reveals things we didn't know we didn't know.

I love to listen to ABC radio documentaries while driving, especially NPR summer series, and yesterday I was not disappointed on hearing part of Grammar, Identity, and the Dark Side of the Subjunctive. It got me reflecting on how Murray, John and I went about making Two brothers Walking.

We made the documentary with very little. We had sponsorship for travel and accommodation and some funding for post production and launch. I approached various funding bodies early on but since we were working along cultural lines I was confident though not certain that we would complete a film for a general audience. We intended to film significant cultural material so final approval would be up to the people responsible for that Tjukurpa. I knew the my Anangu friends looked at the world wasn’t the same as my english speaking western way, and I suspected there were things I didn’t know that weren’t even on my radar.
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