Robert Hamilton
Director and Producer at AFIN
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Biography
Robert Hamilton is a retired academic who specialised in the history of the late colonial Australian frontier, Austral-Asian history, Education, First Nations art and representation in film and art, and Reconciliation. He has worked or been an academic visitor at The University of Sydney, Western Sydney University, University of New England, The Rijksuniversiteit de Leiden, KITLV Leiden, Michigan State University, Menzies Centre for Australian Studies London, and Nanyang Technological University Singapore. This is his first film.
AFIN recognition
From the Judges, on The Witchdoctor and the Windmill (2026)
From the Judges, on The Witchdoctor and the Windmill
Animation sequences, archival footage and a chorus of interviewees give this feature the texture of a life told properly, and the score carries it. The writing draws one artist's story outward into Aboriginal history, art history, culture and colonisation without losing sight of the woman at its centre. Panel members found it moving, educational and genuinely original, a portrait of a remarkable life that deserves to be far better known.
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