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My research projects are united by a focus on the implications of Aboriginal Australian representations for the future of their communities. This site highlights my collaborative film and podcast productions, as well as my research projects, publications, and public scholarship. Based on years of ethnographic fieldwork with Indigenous media organizations in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia, Dreaming Down the Track: Awakenings in Aboriginal Cinema (2025, University of Minnesota Press) traces the dynamic process of filmmaking as a critical mode of political transformation, as well as a social process through which Aboriginal futures are collectively imagined and called forth. My research has been supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Fulbright IIE US Scholar Program, the Lois Roth Endowment, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. https://williamlempert.com/pagecv-1 daily 0.75 2017-09-06 https://williamlempert.com/video-gallary daily 0.75 2024-12-31 https://williamlempert.com/podcasts daily 0.75 2019-06-02 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1504759503570-78MR2O85Z24YW04CEF2V/inline_MOON_STEPS_APOLLO_17.jpg Podcasts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1504742461508-XXA7828KTJ6OYQ5VZCTN/inline_Haircut_in_Space.jpg Podcasts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1504759484654-TICRFANWS77RI7ZB87FL/inline__7372097440_87dac21785_o.jpg Podcasts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1504742495462-FQJI0HFZ99Z053ARVOL4/inline_150710112121-soyuz-apollo-handshake-1075-super-169.jpg Podcasts https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1504742517817-76F1BXWDXE0XQITW8SF1/inline__Vox_Space_Ice_Cream.png Podcasts https://williamlempert.com/peerreviewed-articles daily 0.75 2025-07-10 https://williamlempert.com/online-writing daily 0.75 2025-07-10 https://williamlempert.com/summary daily 0.75 2025-07-10 https://williamlempert.com/philosophy daily 0.75 2020-11-17 https://williamlempert.com/major-projects daily 0.75 2025-07-10 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069823135-01CARQUQOFDW2EZRLC5E/4.png Projects Still from Sticking 2 Treatment, a music video on Rheumatic Heart Disease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/3cabbaeb-c576-4d98-b0be-4f43893ec2af/Space+Force.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Uncanny similarity in the logos for Star Trek’s Starfleet Command and the Space Force https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505075610551-SQE4UNXYOBTCM5QDC27R/Hands Projects Still from Bush Hunt Hand Talk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/d108b21f-b8ba-4b72-8bf9-0de31096c54c/Columbus.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Replicas of the Santa Maria, Nina, Pinta sail by Space Shuttle Endeavor’s maiden voyage https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505068652660-3M8ZKN1A0MBY4NP9Q9JL/Painting+from+above+2.JPG Projects Overview shot of women painting during the Tjawa Tjawa film shoot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069729938-C6IN7M3LX1TY8SQ1YAO9/1.png Projects Still from Tjawa Tjawa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/e575786f-a3e4-4ca2-a81f-c4e1a7da629a/The+Discovery.jpg Projects - Make it stand out Image from the film poster for Christopher Columbus: The Discovery https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069882771-H4LLHVR09C0FCZ7098A7/5.png Projects Still from Keeping Looma Carers Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505075658342-8RLVQZAQ4Q5I638BBZ0M/Hand+sign+out+window Projects Still from Bush Hunt Hand Talk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505070041424-1R43P6OLSOICE4A5ZZQ9/Night+women+and+Arthur.JPG Projects Production shot from Tjawa Tjawa (credit Clint Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069066810-EXTCO14DLUWJTT0W2E64/boomerang.jpg Projects Still from Marumpu Wangka: Kukatja Hand Talk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069980231-UNUP8Z32L1HOWAKI6W8B/3.png Projects Still from What a Wonderful World, showing a beach in Broome, AU https://williamlempert.com/presentations daily 0.75 2025-07-10 https://williamlempert.com/new-cv daily 0.75 2017-10-06 https://williamlempert.com/copy-of-projects-original-version daily 0.75 2017-10-06 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069882771-H4LLHVR09C0FCZ7098A7/5.png Copy of Projects Original Version Still from Keeping Looma Carers Strong https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505075610551-SQE4UNXYOBTCM5QDC27R/Hands Copy of Projects Original Version Still from Bush Hunt Hand Talk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505070041424-1R43P6OLSOICE4A5ZZQ9/Night+women+and+Arthur.JPG Copy of Projects Original Version Production shot from Tjawa Tjawa (credit Clint Dixon) https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069980231-UNUP8Z32L1HOWAKI6W8B/3.png Copy of Projects Original Version Still from What a Wonderful World, showing a beach in Broome, AU https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069823135-01CARQUQOFDW2EZRLC5E/4.png Copy of Projects Original Version Still from Sticking 2 Treatment, a music video on Rheumatic Heart Disease https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069729938-C6IN7M3LX1TY8SQ1YAO9/1.png Copy of Projects Original Version Still from Tjawa Tjawa https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505075658342-8RLVQZAQ4Q5I638BBZ0M/Hand+sign+out+window Copy of Projects Original Version Still from Bush Hunt Hand Talk https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505068652660-3M8ZKN1A0MBY4NP9Q9JL/Painting+from+above+2.JPG Copy of Projects Original Version Overview shot of women painting during the Tjawa Tjawa film shoot https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1505069066810-EXTCO14DLUWJTT0W2E64/boomerang.jpg Copy of Projects Original Version Still from Marumpu Wangka: Kukatja Hand Talk https://williamlempert.com/home daily 0.75 2017-10-07 https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/59b049d9a9db0934a50dbdfe/1504740163866-DYSVWH8Z598RYTSWWBSJ/1462704_10101937370031798_1240194496409941293_o.jpg Copy of Home I am finishing my PhD in cultural anthropology at the University of Colorado at Boulder. My dissertation, Broadcasting Indigenous Futures: The Social Life of Kimberley Aboriginal Media, is based on 26 months of ethnographic research in the Kimberley region of Northwestern Australia since 2006. I follow the social lifecycles of dozens of film projects through daily collaboration within production teams, in order to understand the stakes of Aboriginal self-representation embedded within the process of filmmaking itself. My research analyzes the paradoxical relationship between the production of films that vividly imagine hopeful and diverse Indigenous futures, and the current widespread defunding of Aboriginal communities and organizations. My research has been supported by grants from the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research, the Fulbright IIE US Scholar Program, the Lois Roth Endowment, the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, and the American Council of Learned Societies. https://williamlempert.com/philosophy-1 daily 0.75 2017-10-07