Origins - Festival of First Nations
Dark Science - (7 May – Ciné Lumière 6.15pm)
In 1910 a team of young Swedish scientists sailed to the far north of Australia in search of the missing
link between Man and Ape. They did not find it and, in their search, they lost themselves.
The expedition returned to Sweden with illegally smuggled indigenous human remains and artefacts
accompanying the flora and fauna they collected. Dark Science tells the story of an expedition gone
badly awry, of a megalomaniacal leader and of the men who found paradise but failed to recognise it.
The remains that scientist Eric Mjoberg took from the Kimberleys were returned to Australia in 2003
by the Swedish Government, the first repatriation of human remains by a major European Museum.
Scripted by David Milroy (see also Theatre - Windmill Baby).
- 55 mins
- Director: Warwick Thornton. Australia 2007
Venue 3: Ciné Lumière, 17, Queensberry Place, London SW7 £9 (£7). 020 7073 1350.
www.institut-francais.org.uk
Screening with: A Sister's Love
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