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Movies about Aboriginal Legends

By moviejourneys On May 31, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
Here are two films that come close to the core of modern understanding of Aboriginal culture in Australia. The first of them can be found among the films of  David Gulpilil Ten Canoes  (2006) Written, produced, and directed by Rolf de Heer in collaboration with the indigenous people of Ramingining in Arnhem Land, this project [...]
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Walkabout  (1971)

By moviejourneys On February 19, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
For my money, the best film on the unhappy clash of Civilization and indigenous culture is Walkabout. Though the action is framed by white suburban life in an Australian city, the drama is set in the Outback, home of the Aborigines, among the most threatened and devastated native peoples on the face of the Earth. There are [...]
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David Gulpilil Movies

By moviejourneys On February 13, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
Below is a list of movies in which David Gulpilil has appeared. It spans 43 years. Things have not gone well for David in the last decade or so, according to Wikipedia, and he has been seen less often on the screen. There is a biographical film, called Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2003), which can be [...]
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Rabbit-Proof Fence  (2002)

By moviejourneys On February 13, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
Set in western Australia of 1931, this is the true story of three young half-cast Aboriginal girls taken from the Jigalong “mob” in the north and transported to a training camp 1200 miles to the south.  As cruel as this may sound, there were some Brits who honestly felt they were helping the downtrodden Aborigines [...]
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Where the Green Ants Dream (1984) – Herzog

By moviejourneys On February 13, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
A film by Werner Herzog, this is a docudrama on the culture clash in Australia.  I watched it first with the audio commentary from Herzog and a critic.  The setting is an opal mining operation somewhere in the middle of the country.  The white intruders are played mostly by Australian actors; the aborigines are the [...]
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The Sapphires (2012)

By moviejourneys On February 13, 2014 · Add Comment · In Australia, Outback: Aboriginal Australia
Winter weather kept us at home on New Years Eve, 2013. Our compensation was the discovery of this film. It opens in 1958 on an Aboriginal reserve.  A print legend establishes that until 1967 Aborigines were not considered human beings by the Australian government. Initially, the story revolves around three sisters who have been singing [...]
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