Desert Heart

After 40 years in exile, Yulparitja elders take Daniel Walbidi, their most promising young artist, back to the desert heartland they left behind.

In the remote Aboriginal community of Bidyadanga a new art movement has emerged. At its helm is a young Aboriginal man who is well on the way to international fame and possible fortune. Daniel Walbidi paints the desert country that his parents walked out of 40 years ago. Now, with the rock holes, sandhills and salt lakes of their country revitalized through the creation of the paintings, they are determined to go back and show Daniel their desert country for the first time.

‘Last dry season, the artists and their helpers headed out, a motley travelling group of 25, accompanied by the great documentary filmmaker of the inland, David Batty, whose account of the journey is the film Desert Heart.’
Nicolas Rothwell, The Australian

• Desert Heart Study Guide (PDF)
• Daniel Walbidi on Australian Art Review (LINK)
• Danile Walbidi article in The Australian (LINK)
• Short Street Gallery (LINK)

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• Written and Directed by
  DAVID BATTY and JENI McMAHON

  Producer
  JENI McMAHON

  Camera
  DAVID BATTY

  Camera Assistant and Sound Recordist
  BERGEN O'BRIEN

  Editors
  CHARLIE ASPINWALL
  BERGEN O'BRIEN

  Composer
  MICHAEL DEN ELZEN

• Unit Manager
  CHRIS BATTY

  Production Assistant
  FRANK BATTY

  Translators
  DESMOND TAYLOR
  ROBYN MARAIS

  Production Accountant
  TONY NAGLE

  Sound Post Production
  LIVIA RUZIC

  Additional Editing
  PAUL BELL