Namatjira Project

Full of nerves, laughs and love.

Despite the clunky title, Namatjira Project tells a profoundly moving story, in a way that's original and appropriate.

There's no arguing that culture-shifting indigenous artist Albert Namatjira deserves all the tributes he can get...yet this unsatisfying documentary feels too much like a rough cut of a TV program in need of a 30-minute shave.

The weight of its many strands eventually tie together the past and the present, artistic greatness and commercial reality, and Indigenous life with the judgment of white Australia.