MILPA PROJECT

LANGUAGE GROUPS Language groups: Pitjantjatjara, Tjuntjuntjara

Hand crafted puppets have been cooking Butter Chicken in Tjuntjuntjara. This year, artists from the Milpa studio, a digital arts space run by Spinifex Arts Project, have created a Pitjantjatjara stop motion animation cooking show set in a miniature replica of the kitchen at the Women’s Centre in the Tjuntjuntjara Community.

Working from real photos, the artists have modelled puppets, props and a movie set created using recycled materials and polymer clay. The film is performed, shot and edited by the men and women from the Milpa crew of artists, with Kendrea and Pamela Hogan performing the voices of the cooks.

Milpa works with Anangu artists to produce new artworks and to tell stories in local dialects.

Through digital media, artists are able to experiment and produce important artworks that capture and express their own ideas and cultural values, continuing the legacy of the many great Spinifex artists from this community.

The Tjuntjuntjara-Nya Cooking

Show / Mai Wiru Palanya, 2023 stop motion animation

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VOICES AND SCRIPT

Kendrea and Pamela Hogan

MILPA PROJECT COORDINATOR

Ange Leech

LANGUAGE TRANSLATION, SUBTITLES

Pamela Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Ange Leech, Dianne Thompson

MUSIC

Kasman Kelly

PUPPET ANIMATORS

Adelle Hogan, Naomi Felton, Pamela Hogan, Ange Leech, Regina Lyons, Donna Mungee, Adrienne Stevens, Loretta Stevens, Dianne Thompson, Mathew York

GRAPHICS

Adelle Hogan, Ange Leech, Dianne Thompson, Mathew York

PUPPETS, SETS, PROPS ARTISTS

FM Donaldson, Maureen

Donegan, Adelle Hogan, Naomi Felton, Janine Hogan, Kendrea Hogan, Pamela Hogan, Jarmen Goodwin, Donna Mungee

Adrienne Stevens, Loretta Stevens, Dianne Thompson, Sherrie West, Susan Young, Mathew York