About Collisions (2016):

‘Ngaa-nga jarkulparna kartinpa yulubidyi, Jarmukurnu Yaparlyikurnu mirda kujtu ngaryukuju parlparryikujanumpa, yuwa palya.

This story I carry is until the end, from our Grandfathers and Grandmothers; not just my story alone, for everyone, thank you.’

-Nyarri Nyarri Morgan

Collisions (2016) invites audiences on a journey to the land of Indigenous elder, Nyarri Nyarri Morgan and the Martu tribe in the remote Western Australian desert. In this thought-provoking, immersive virtual reality experience, Nyarri shares his story of the dramatic collision between his traditional world view and the extremes of western science and technology.

Nyarri Morgan’s first contact with western culture came when he witnessed an atomic test in the South Australian desert. Half a century later, another technology affords him the chance to show viewers the world that was ruptured that day.

At the invitation of Nyarri and the Martu tribe, Lynette Wallworth has sculpted an immersive virtual reality experience that places you at its story’s epicenter. From songs of the oldest surviving culture on the planet to drones soaring above the red desert, from projectors powered by car batteries to bombs that poison the land, this is a world that finds itself–again–teetering on a precipice of technological change that questions how we will steward it into the future.

Collisions has won multiple awards including an International News & Documentary Emmy Award for Outstanding New Approaches to Documentary 2017.

Collisions was developed through the inaugural Sundance New Frontier-Jaunt VR Residency and was commissioned to premiere at the World Economic Forum, Davos. In the following week it premiered at Sundance Festival, 2016. Collisions was Produced by Nicole Newnham.