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Satellite Dreaming Revisited: four decades of Australian Indigenous media
Warning
This website contains some pictures, voices and names of people who have passed away.
If you have any questions, or feedback about the project, please contact us.
Satellite Dreaming is a TV programme – broadcast in Australia and in the UK in the early 1990s – which traced the emergence of Australian Indigenous electronic media at the time. It was made for the Channels of Resistance series, commissioned by Channel 4 in 1990.
It is still seen as ‘a film of considerable historic importance’ (SBS/NITV) and ‘a useful teaching resource on the history of Indigenous media, and how it differs from mainstream programming’ (Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive).
SATELLITE DREAMING REVISITED uses the 1991 programme as the focus for exploring Indigenous media work in Australia over the last four decades – the 1980s to now – through the eyes of many of the people involved in the original programme, and in the wider field – some of whom have also written essays for the site.
The site brings together the 1991 film in ten chapters with transcripts, interviews and biographies, essays, a timeline, and a collection of sources on Indigenous media in Australia.
The site is temporarily offline
The full site is moving to a new home and will be back soon. In the meantime, please get in touch at satellite.dreaming@gmail.com.
Partners & funding
Satellite Dreaming Revisited was developed at Goldsmiths, University of London, in collaboration with CAAMA Productions in Alice Springs. The project was funded by an Emeritus Fellowship from the Leverhulme Trust.
Feedback
The site is not finished or ‘complete’. We are keen to add contributions to the essays, new information, references and links to the sources, and more biographies and interviews. If you are interested in contributing, or making any comments or corrections, please email us at satellite.dreaming@gmail.com.