Suai Media Space

Video made on iMovie with voices made by Lyn Anito and Zero! Lyn was in our first workshop in February 2006. Now she has a part time position with Red Cross in Suai. Anito and Zero are newcomers - and their talents came into the fore at Suai Loro Beach on the last day when I taped them singing and playing their guitar….you have to wait for that one. Meantime enjoy this and you can thank Annie Sloman for the inspiration to get everybody to make this song comic and give the video the zip it has now. They didn’t believe her it would work until they did it and everybody was pleased.

These are the first videos made by the students of YoMaTre 2008 workshop group.

Patiently edited by Jemi this hilarious animation was photographed using Photo Booth and Annie Sloman’s computer camera including just about everybody in the workshop group. Thanks to Gammarays King Tut off the Sounds of St Kilda Album 2005. In the process of tracing them for permission - so if you know them please let me know through the email address in the contacts menu on sms.

Video made on iMovie with voices made by Lyn Anito and Zero! Lyn was in our first workshop in February 2006. Now she has a part time position with Red Cross in Suai. Anito and Zero are newcomers - and their talents came into the fore at Suai Loro Beach on the last day when I taped them singing and playing their guitar….you have to wait for that one. Meantime enjoy this and you can thank Annie Sloman for the inspiration to get everybody to make this song comic and give the video the zip it has now. They didn’t believe her it would work until they did it and everybody was pleased.

Marcos Laran Kanek (Marcos’s Wound) was recorded by Marcos using Photo Booth - some software attached to MAC Books inbuilt camera.

Group Model Comik was made by Ferdy using iMovie, a digital still camera and Dili Allstars Song - Liberdade.

In this Episode Rufino relates his memories of a raid on Dili.

Rufino believes this assault was to rescue the Australian Consul David Ross who was kept under house arrest in Dili. There are no accounts of his being rescued or of any need to rescue him. From the Australian writings on the subject it sounds like this raid could have been the failed attempt to rescue two POW’s. Ptes Merv Ryan and Peter Alexander. In both accounts it was carried out by Tom Nisbet’s B Platoon, several points of interest are similar and the geography fits. The Japanese deaths are another matter. For this I refer you to the Hymn to Pinnochio written by one of the members of Sparrow Force.

In this episode Rufino relates a story about the reactions of the Liurai or king of Remexio, when he arrives one day with Tom Nisbet and his Company.

Rufino provides a glimpse into the everyday working relationships between the Timorese and the Australian soldiers in 1942.

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In this Episode Rufino recollects the Japanese Invasion of 1942, on the 65th Anniversary of the Japanese Invasion in Dare above Dili, on the 19th February, 2006. This was also the date of the first death of WW2 in East Timor. Dare is the site of a swimming pool donated by the 2/2nd Association and opened in 1969.
40,000 Timorese died because of the presence of the Australian and Japanese forces in Portuguese Timor. You should also check out the poems written by Jim Smailes of the 2/2nd Company about the Australian landing and a poetic comment about honesty in war in the poetry category.

For another perspective on whether Australia should have compromised Portuguese Timor’s neutrality when they did, see David Scott’s ‘Unpublished Chapters‘ : The Reluctant Invaders’ and ‘All They Got Was Misery’ both are available in English and Tetun.

More about East Timor Memory and History that is important in understanding Rufino’s stories in ‘News‘ ANZAC Day Video Release.

A series of episodes selected from an extended interview with Rufino Correia in 2006. Thought to be the last surviving criado in East Timor, Rufino’s stories give an insight into the experiences and memories of a great old man.

Some kids singing a good morning song for the video camera, while helping to build a traditional style shelter in front of Timor Aid in Kamenassa in 2000.
Bondia Bondia

Interview with popular East Timorese Band leader Melli about the power of music to move the enemy and other relevant stuff.