Makhulu Media 158d ago

Who gets to belong on stolen land? Australia Day or Invasion Day? As January 26 approaches, we’re sharing stories from Country that speak to land, belonging, memory, and truth-telling. This clip was filmed in Australia and forms part of a broader documentary project exploring settler colonialism, displacement, and the ongoing struggle for justice across different contexts. Un/Settled is a feature documentary by Makulu Media, filmed across Australia, South Africa, and the United States. Through lived experiences and grounded conversations, the film asks urgent questions about who gets to settle where, what it means to live on unceded land, and how dialogue, reconciliation, and restorative justice might be possible. This project is supported by the Atlantic Institute, Grey Americana, and the Durban FilmMart Pitching Forum. We invite you to watch, listen, and engage-because truth-telling begins with listening and paying attention. transcript : Why do you think it's important for people in Australia to acknowledge Survival Day Invasion Day versus the more nationalistic Australia Day It's important because people have this misconstrued idea that you can either be a nationalistic person or a person who is coming here today to stand in solidarity with our Aboriginal brothers and sisters I'm here because as a white person I am living on stolen land and To celebrate anything else than a justified dispossession of this land is a travesty I am proud in many ways to be an Australian but the Australia that is popularised in the national consciousness is not the Australia that I resonate with Why is it so hard for people to see the connection of history to the present We are in an identity crisis and for white people we have no sense of belonging I think our sense of place is so fractured We have destroyed our sense of self and based our Australian sense of self on illegal occupation which leaves us so unmoored in contemporary life that we actually don't have anything to connect to What are your hopes for the future of Australia We have no resilience to discomfort and because that white equilibrium has never been disrupted whenever we're confronted with small amounts of discomfort we get our hackles up and our white fragility levels itself up and we just step away because we've never been put in a position of discomfort yet It's through that vulnerability and dialogue of actually seeing how privilege has played out for us that we begin to undo ourselves and in that undoing we can understand what it means to actually belong on this country#InvasionDay #AlwaysWasAlwaysWillBe #Decolonize #TruthTelling #IndigenousVoices #DocumentaryShort