Some of the most provocative and illuminating moving image work today is being created by Indigenous new media artists – yet there has been no major international focus on this work until now.

Stop(the)Gap is a major international Indigenous moving image project, developed for the 2011 BigPond Adelaide Film Festival in partnership with the Samstag Museum of Art. Curator Brenda L Croft brings together recent works by renowned Indigenous artists from Australia, Aotearoa/New Zealand, Canada and the USA, to challenge global preconceptions of contemporary international Indigenous expression.

Stop(the)Gap explores the fertile ground between cinema and the visual arts. The exhibition is accompanied by a complementary program of: moving image exhibitions, film screenings, outdoor projections and forums, presented across various Adelaide venues.

For Stop(the)Gap the Samstag Museum of Art will premiere a new work by celebrated Aboriginal filmmaker, Warwick Thornton (Australia), commissioned through the Adelaide Film Festival Investment Fund, and will also feature works by Rebecca Belmore and Dana Claxton (Canada), Alan Michelson (USA), Nova Paul and Lisa Reihana (Aotearoa/NZ).

Media release

Exhibition catalogue

Education resource 

Stop(the)Gap exhibition (YouTube video)

Curator and artist talk (MP4 file)

Official launch, Hetti Perkins (MP4 file)

Interviews with selected curators and artists, Radio National (audio) 

Warwick Thornton interview (audio)