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
