Film Screening and Discussion
Remembering Yayayi
In conjunction with the exhibition Irriṯitja Kuwarri Tjungu: Contemporary Aboriginal Painting from the Australian Desert
January 22–April 11, 2026
Join our friends at the Center for Media, Culture & History for a film screening of Remembering Yayayi followed by a discussion with filmmaker and anthropologist Dr. Fred Myers (NYU Anthropology, Emeritus) and Dr. Jane Anderson (NYU Anthropology and Museum Studies).
REMEMBERING YAYAYI (60 min, 2014, Pip Deveson, Ian Dunlop, Fred Myers)
In 1974 filmmaker Ian Dunlop visited Yayayi, a remote community in Central Australia where Pintupi people had recently moved, leaving the larger government settlement of Papunya. He never made a film with this material, and Yayayi has long since been abandoned. In 2006 anthropologist Fred Myers—captured on film at Yayayi as a young PhD student—showed this footage to Pintupi now living on their own land at Kintore and Kiwirrkura, in particular Marlene Nampitjinpa, now a respected leader and painter. With pleasure and sadness, she watches this remarkable archival film of her family as they lived thirty years earlier, remembering Yayayi and this pivotal moment in Pintupi history.
Please register to attend this event.
Co-sponsored by the Grey Art Museum, NYU; the Department of Anthropology, NYU; and the Department of Cinema Studies, NYU.