In 2018 I was awarded the KW Production Series grant for Berlin-based artists at a crucial stage or their career, to expand into moving image work.

Infractions is a feature-length documentary/video installation, addressing frontline Indigenous cultural workers’ struggles against threats to more than 50% of the Northern Territory from shale gas fracking. Plans to ‘develop the North’ of Australia have been resurrected at different moments since invasion but abandoned just as quickly for being built on fantasies that related little to the actual behaviour of monsoonal-desert water systems. With the lifting of a state moratorium in 2018, British, US, and homegrown mining companies aim to roll out toxic drilling rigs over vast underground flows, which are key connecting sites of culture, law, and food for First Nations.

Refuting capitalist and colonial models of land and water in the driest continent on earth, Infractions features musician and community leader Dimakarri ‘Ray’ Dixon (Mudburra); two-time Telstra Award finalist Jack Green, also winner of the the 2015 Peter Rawlinson Conservation Award (Garawa, Gudanji); musician and community leader Gadrian Hoosan (Garrwa, Yanyuwa); ranger Robert O’Keefe (Wambaya); educators Juliri Ingra and Neola Savage (Gooreng Gooreng); Ntaria community worker and law student Que Kenny (Western Arrarnta); musician Cassie Williams (Western Arrarnta); the Sandridge Band from Borroloola; and Professor Irene Watson (Tanganekald, Meintangk Bunganditj), a contributor to the draft UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (1990–4).

Commissioned by KW Berlin with discursive partner ICA London, the film premiered worldwide in Berlin and London in 2019 and toured Australia in 2020-2021 with IMA Brisbane. It is now available to watch online FREE and is on rotation on the Indigenous Community TV network. 50% of screening fees following the Australian tour go to frontline gas campaigners in the film.