Karrabing! Low Tide Turning

2012, 14’01’’

Karrabing Film Collective, Karrabing! Low Tide Turning, 2012 (still).

Low Tide Turning is Karrabing’s first short film; their first attempt to author their lives within their ancestral present and relentless state interference in the lives. It follows an extended Indigenous family in the Northern Territory of Australia as they attempt to track down a missing family member so as not to loose their government housing. As they move back and forth between the suburban ghetto where they live and a remote landscape where they are trying to establish an outstation, they run up against the everyday obstacles of structural and racialized poverty.

Low Tide Turning captures the awkward hope for contemporary spaces of Indigenous life where dreams are many, humor abundant, but social and personal success is often measured by nothing more than the resilience of making it through the day.