Erik Roberts is a part-time teacher of media at Toowong College, and is currently (at time of production September 2001), involved in a multi-media performance, “Elektrosonic Interference”, to be staged at the Powerhouse in Brisbane. In 2001 Roberts completed a series of animation workshops with local Indigenous and Samoan high school students Roberts’ previous 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 4 films entitled 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.