00:00Walking through these rusted-out car wrecks,
00:08mimiliartist Shane Dodd searches for his next canvas.
00:13Relics of the 20th century.
00:16These cars' parts are being melted, painted, sandblasted
00:19and given new life as artworks recording the story of this country.
00:23This one here, all the people walking to the big waterholes,
00:28to the little waterholes.
00:30In the desert, waterholes sustain life
00:32and knowledge about where they are and how to care for them
00:35is passed on through song, story and art.
00:38All the Aboriginal people always go to waterholes and drink in the bush.
00:43They used to walk. No car, no clothes.
00:47This is a place very few get to see.
00:50Mimili, in the Anangu, Pichanjara, Yankunjara lands.
00:53A five and a half hour drive from Alice Springs.
00:58In this small art studio in the heart of the community,
01:02the artists are preparing their canvases
01:04and reclaimed artworks for exhibitions.
01:07That's how we keep the story as a culture.
01:09So this is what...
01:10Their pieces will be shown in venues as far afield as Switzerland.
01:14But they're driven to record their stories for those closer to home.
01:18Stories are also passed down through song.
01:32Here, Tubby Goodwin sings about the maku chukupa,
01:35the Wichiti grub song line.
01:38Wichiti grubs, also known as maku, are a vital food source
01:42and the sites where they can be found are also depicted on the canvases.
02:00Now the next generation is being taught these survival skills.
02:03The term country encompasses more than the land.
02:23It's also the spiritual beliefs,
02:25the family connections, language and cultural identity.
02:28Country is a story.
02:33Country is where the story can be told.
02:37Desmond Woodford shares a new song
02:39at a place special to his family.
02:41We are the Nettie people.
02:45He sings about the ongoing devastation of nuclear testing
02:48more than 70 years ago, further south of here,
02:51displacing people from their homelands.
02:53Couldn't walk back on the tracks, you know,
02:55and that was rock holes was radiated.
03:00A reminder that caring for country
03:01sustains the world's oldest living culture.
03:05Car wrecks, guitar, voice and acrylic paints,
03:08vehicles new and old for the transmission of knowledge.
03:11The next generation, they can take over one day
03:13and share the same story.
03:15They can take over the triumphant contentment,
03:17they can take over one day.
03:18All four days should have been maintained,
03:19with all the journeys attached to the other удin
03:34and all the news.
03:36Nothing to dokin propre.
03:37The 1950s
03:37is being found on the island.
03:38Some recent young
03:40epherds
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