TIME MACHINE
While making our new film Yellow House Afghanistan I have often looked down at my feet and realised what it must have been like for an Apollo astronaut when they looked down to see their feet on the surface of the moon. No foreigner would have walked in the places where I have had the privilege […]
HANDS
The potters work long days in the mud with their hands and feet hardly ever going outside their ceramic world. The pottery compound reminds me of the set of Tatooine from first episode of Star Wars, where Luke Skywalker grew up. George Lucas imagined Tatooine as a place as ancient and as unchanged as this. […]
Flourishing Yellow Houses
I have been out and about in the market a lot buying things to equip our two Yellow Houses and am constantly moved by the sight of young, former Taliban fighters, who have been released from duty and are now trying to adjust to a life where they do not have to hide in caves […]
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George Gittoes: 12/9/22 – Borderlessness Peshawar
I left for Islamabad knowing I was “going out on a limb” – that it could “all be for nothing,” and I may have to return to Australia not having been able to enter Afghanistan if I could not obtain a visa. The Afghan Embassy in Canberra had ceased giving visas without explanation and we […]
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VIDEO: Yellow Submarine to Taliwood
On his connection to the culture of the region, and his projects there, Gittoes writes: “During 1965, while in my first year at a new high school, Kingsgrove North, I dared to suggest to the art teacher that we take the option of studying Islamic art. The teacher tried to persuade me against it, saying […]
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Yellow Submarine to Taliwood: 04/11/21
I took time out this morining to read Hermann Hesse’s book Siddhartha (1922) again after about fifty-five years since the first reading. Then I had to write about it. This sense of a life journey had been a big element of this journey. […]
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Artists Interpret the Nauru Files
Australia’s leading artists have joined forces in an exhibition that paints a poignant picture of the leaked Nauru files.
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