Ingress: a short film collaboration between Juliet Burnett + Joel Benguigui with music by Mira Calix

Ingress is a landing in a new place: moving through the trepidation, drinking in the wonder, searching for peace, until spirits of body and place coalesce. Ingress is a becoming.

Indonesian-Australian dance artist and A_PART founder Juliet Burnett, along with Indonesian-French visual and film artist Joel Benguigui created this film in response to the idea of arriving somewhere and finding a home. While Juliet was born and raised in Warrane (Sydney) to a Javanese-Indonesian mother and Welsh/Irish/Scottish-Australian father, Joel was born in Flores, Indonesia, but was raised in Paris, France, and now lives in Cavanbah (Byron Bay) where this short film was shot. ‘Cavanbah’ is the Arakwal peoples’ word for ‘meeting place’, fitting for two Indonesian diaspora people who have made a home on the unceded lands known as Australia, after becoming friends during their time living in Antwerp, Belgium.

The music is composed and performed by the late Mira Calix, born in South Africa and based in London for most of her life. Both Juliet and Joel share this film in honour of a hugely talented and important music artist, gone too soon.

Ingress (2024)

Performance: Juliet Burnett

DOP: Joel Benguigui

Music: Mira Calix, ‘An Infinite Thrum’ (archipelago), courtesy Warp Records

We acknowledge the traditional owners of the land on which this film has been recorded, the Arakwal of the Bundjalung Country, and pay our respect to their elders, past and present. Always was, always will be.