Whispers From My Grandmother’s Womb
Campbelltown Arts Centre, 2019
Director/Performer/Writer: Emele Ugavule
Performer: Sereima Adimate, Pasepa Morell
Interviewee: Pasepa Morell, Arieta Tegeilolo Talanoa Tora Rika
Movement Director and Videographer: Amy Zhang
Original composition: Moses McRae and Emele Ugavule
Two Channel, Short Film, 2019
Commissioned for the Marama Dina exhibition, curated by the Veiqia Project
Supported by Creative Australia
Whispers from my Grandmother’s womb, 2019 is a love letter to her grandmother, her Bu, with whom she feels an unbreakable bond even beyond her grandmother’s passing. Emele’s video work uses oratory techniques to acknowledge and give gratitude to the special relationship she and other young women hold with Grandmother, Mother and Aunty figures who have nurtured and held them.
