Item details
Item ID
WM2-042
Title Gaulim Movies
Description The Gaulim Movies are video clips of an overall cultural exhibition project commissioned by the Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art (QAGOMA) to engage with these practices in an attempt to acknowledge the full breadth of artistic expression across Papua New Guinea today.

It involves the Uramat Mugas (Uramat Story Songs) project, in development for ‘The 10th Asia Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art’ (APT10).

The project — involving Uramat leader Lazarus Eposia and Gunantuna Elder, the late Gideon Kakabin and Ruth McDougall, Curator, Pacific Art, Queensland Art Gallery | Gallery of Modern Art, Brisbane.

The video clips are some of the footages from a ceremony where people, dancers are immersed in the sounds of the village and people as it prepare the lyrical lilt in the 'Uramat' tok ples (Ura language), the soft hum of the surrounding forest and the mugas (story songs) that are sung for the dances in more guttural tones by Uramat men. Threading all of this together are the sonorous beats of the bamboo orchestra — a thrum that echoes through the hollow bamboo as it is slammed rhythmically against a timber plank on the ground.

Source: Ruth McDougall, QAGOMA

(David Bridie & Steven Gagau, June 2025)
Origination date 2008-01-01
Origination date free form
Archive link https://catalog.paradisec.org.au/repository/WM2/042
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Collector
David Bridie
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Language as given
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Dialect
Region / village Gaulim, Gazelle Peninsula, East New Britain Province
Originating university University of Sydney
Operator Jodie Kell
Data Categories song
Data Types Sound
Discourse type singing
Roles Steven Gagau : data_inputter
George Telek : participant
Gideon Kakabin : compiler
Ruth McDougall : compiler
David Bridie : participant
Lazarus Eposia : compiler
DOI 10.26278/w6pk-qw50
Cite as David Bridie (collector), Steven Gagau (data_inputter), George Telek (participant), Gideon Kakabin (compiler), Ruth McDougall (compiler), David Bridie (participant), Lazarus Eposia (compiler), 2008. Gaulim Movies. MATROSKA/MP4. WM2-042 at catalog.paradisec.org.au. https://dx.doi.org/10.26278/w6pk-qw50
Content Files (70)
Filename Type File size Duration File access
WM2-042-001.mkv video/matroska 644 MB 00:01:19.640
WM2-042-001.mp4 video/mp4 141 MB 00:01:19.640
WM2-042-002.mkv video/matroska 6.66 MB 00:00:01.0
WM2-042-002.mp4 video/mp4 1.59 MB 00:00:01.0
WM2-042-003.mkv video/matroska 41.1 MB 00:00:06.320
WM2-042-003.mp4 video/mp4 9.14 MB 00:00:06.320
WM2-042-004.mkv video/matroska 93.8 MB 00:00:15.640
WM2-042-004.mp4 video/mp4 25.5 MB 00:00:15.640
WM2-042-005.mkv video/matroska 122 MB 00:00:09.240
WM2-042-005.mp4 video/mp4 27.4 MB 00:00:09.240
WM2-042-006.mkv video/matroska 90 MB 00:00:08.279
WM2-042-006.mp4 video/mp4 23.5 MB 00:00:08.279
WM2-042-007.mkv video/matroska 78.8 MB 00:00:07.759
WM2-042-007.mp4 video/mp4 20.5 MB 00:00:07.759
WM2-042-008.mkv video/matroska 270 MB 00:00:23.359
WM2-042-008.mp4 video/mp4 62.2 MB 00:00:23.359
WM2-042-009.mkv video/matroska 132 MB 00:00:12.240
WM2-042-009.mp4 video/mp4 32.5 MB 00:00:12.240
WM2-042-010.mkv video/matroska 222 MB 00:00:22.39
WM2-042-010.mp4 video/mp4 51.3 MB 00:00:22.39
WM2-042-011.mkv video/matroska 65.5 MB 00:00:06.839
WM2-042-011.mp4 video/mp4 16.9 MB 00:00:06.839
WM2-042-012.mkv video/matroska 150 MB 00:00:13.80
WM2-042-012.mp4 video/mp4 34.2 MB 00:00:13.80
WM2-042-013.mkv video/matroska 284 MB 00:00:39.399
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Collection Information
Collection ID WM2
Collection title Wantok Musik Foundation (WMF) - Music Label Recordings of Oceania Region.
Description The Wantok Musik Foundation is an Australian-based not-for-profit Music Label that records, releases and promotes culturally infused music from Indigenous Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. The brand “Wantok Musik” is a Melanesian term that reflects talking with a common language “one talk” although in the diverse cultures of the region that may have different sounds, different beats, different instruments, the music we all share is common and singing about the same things such as our history, our lore, our education, our hurts, our joys, our injustices, our struggles, our lives, our communities and our stories. This Collection preserves rich musical talents and artists of the Oceania region where the Wantok Musik Label through album recordings and collaborative projects has fostered cross-cultural initiatives and exchange. Through music and language within the diverse cultures of the region, we hear, share and learn about entertainers, performers and artistic and creative expressions where over the years, the Wantok Musik label has recorded, released and promoted of music from First Nation Australia, Melanesia and Oceania. Wantok Musik promotes local and international profile of First Nation and world music groups based in the region by supporting and providing greater economic opportunity for artists, long-term career sustainability at the same time by managing the various activities addresses social issues with creative and culturally focused approaches.
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Access Information
Edit access Mihka Chee
David Bridie
View/Download access Mihka Chee
David Bridie
Data access conditions Closed (subject to the access condition details)
Data access narrative
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