Roger Sandall

Roger Sandall

Filmography

	CONISTON MUSTER [from the AIATSIS Collection] » A classic documentary about the annual muster on Coniston cattle station, north-west of Alice Springs, and its Aboriginal head stockman, Coniston Johnny, who narrates much of the film...
	CAMELS & THE PITJANTJARA [from the AIATSIS Collection] » A classic documentary from 1969 which records the Pitjantjara people’s use of feral camels in central Australia, capturing and taming them, and using them as pack animals...
	WALBIRI FIRE CEREMONY, A - Ngatjakula [from the AIATSIS Collection] » Ngatjakula is one of the most spectacular ceremonies of central Australia, employing fire, and several days of singing and dance, to resolve conflicts and re-affirm social order among the Warlpiri (Walbiri) people...
	MAKING A BARK CANOE [from the AIATSIS Collection] » Two men make a bark canoe in the swamps of coastal Arnhem Land – a process simply observed by filmmaker Roger Sandall. This film is a fine example of the many films that Roger Sandall made for the Institute of Aboriginal Studies in which he recorded Aboriginal craft techniques and skills – in this case, the process by which two men, Djurkuwidi and Wangamaru, work together to make a bark canoe...