her name is nanny nellie 2023 web h264-rbb

Directed byDaniel King

Documentary film released in 2023, directed by Daniel King and starring Irene Ridgeway. Powerful and poignant Her Name is Nanny Nellie offers us the rare privilege of bearing witness to a family reclaiming their history. In 1925 the Australian Museum commissioned three statues of ‘full blood ’Aboriginal people: a child a man and a woman exhibited as nameless objects to be studied as examples of a ‘dying race.’ The woman was Nellie Walker Irene Walker’s great grandmother and director Daniel King’s great great grandmother. Now Irene is on a journey to retrace Nellie’s life and to reconnect the other families to their ancestors’ statues and re-display them this time with their names identities and dignity. This is far more than a symbolic quest but an opportunity to change how we remember and represent and to give the nameless names.. It is in EN language with a runtime of 81 minutes. The video is encoded in MP4 format at 720x400 resolution and has a file size of 668 MiB.