Erik Roberts. Writer, curator and filmmaker. Worked as a part-time media teacher at Toowong College for a period. Was involved in a multi-media performance 'Elektronic interference' staged at the Powerhouse in Brisbane in the early 2000s. In 2001 Roberts completed a series of animation workshops with local Indigenous and Samoan high school students. He continued to be involved in film workshops throughout the 2000s. Some of Roberts's films include Hand-crafted cinema - the animated films of Caroline Leaf; The stainless light - the Tibetan Kalachakra 'Wheel of Time’ Mandala; Anymata - a shopping trolley named Desire and The nameless. Umpi Korumba (originally titled Round Brisbane) is a short film produced for the Centenary of Federation with the assistance of QPIX. It is one in a series of four films titled Time & light : four impressions of Brisbane. The film makes extensive use of images from the Alcock Collection of glass slides (UQFL256) from the Fryer Library, University of Queensland.