Ten Canoes
AroView: This beguiling First Nations parable from director Rolf de Heer is an evocative time-warp of Australia’s rich ancestry, told through the campfire narration of David Gulpilil.
Framed around a hunting expedition in the outback swamplands, de Heer not only steeps the film in history, but textures it with visuals of vast mystique. An indigenous milestone (the first all-Aboriginal language Australian feature), this is also simultaneously appealing as a native anthropology, while the non-actor cast lend a jokey, naturalistic quality to the storytelling, itself a simple cave drawing transcended by de Heer’s nous for time and place.
Cast
David Gulpilil , Jamie Gulpilil , Crusoe Kurddal , Richard Birrinbirrin , Peter Minygululu , Frances Djulibing
Director
Director
Language
Yolngu Matha
Country
Australia
Studio
Vertigo Productions
