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	The Tracker starring David Gulpilil, a Rolf de Heer film The year is 1922 and four men are pursuing an Aboriginal man accused of murdering a white woman. They are led by The Fanatic (Gary Sweet) but they all follow the Tracker (David Gulpilil), a savvy bushman educated by nature and by missionaries. He is able to see imperceptible signs and to read human nature. He knows who he is following and who is following him. The other two in the posse are a green young constable and a taciturn, old-school horseman. The Fanatic is driven by an implacable sense of justice and vengeance, based on white law and bigotry. He will get his man no matter what the cost. He doesn't dwell on statistics. The law, based on discipline and fear, must be upheld. While hardly a novel western scenario, director Rolf de Heer invests his film with great sensitivity and mystique - there are moral issues for each character, of course, and for the viewer. We do not know if the fugitive is innocent or guilty and whether he will be given fair treatment. The young constable comes of age when his personal morality challenges his commitment to duty. The Veteran accepts inevitablities of human folly as he accepts the vicissitudes of nature. What's done is done and can't be undone. Human nature is more cruel. He suspends judgement - to his cost. David Gulpilil in the title role is outstanding - his eyes alight with wisdom and patience. The Tracker is a capable gamesman - more a guerilla than a mercenary. How he plays his cards depends on his own sense of justice. It's a powerful performance from a gifted actor. Winner Best Leading Role IF Awards 2002 Winner Best Film IF Awards 2002 Official Selection Venice International Film Festival 2002 For purchase in the iDIDJ Store: http://www.ididj.com.au/store/movies.html View Video
	Aboriginal Dance - Gulpilil, Blanasi Australia's Aboriginal people have no written language. The legends and the stories of their past have been kept alive in song and dance. This video contains two films that provide a beautiful and valuable record of Australian Aboriginal dance. Three Dances by Gulpilil, filmed in 1978 at Bamyili, features dances by one of the best-known exponents of Australian Aboriginal dance, David Gulpilil, accompanied by David Blanasi on the didgeridoo . Five Aboriginal Dances from Cape York, filmed in 1966, is a record of Aboriginal dancing at the Aurukun Mission Station in far north Queensland. Note that there is no didgeridoo in the Cape York dances. Format: VHS PAL, VHS NTSC Length: 2 x 8 minutes This video is available for AUD$43.85 including postage to anywhere in the world. It is available in the iDIDJ Store: http://www.ididj.com.au/store/movies.html View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 1 First almost ten minutes of Walkabout, a film by Nicholas Roeg starring Jenny Agutter and David Gulpilil. A Girl and her little brother become lost in the Australian outback and an aboriginal Boy on his "walkabout" helps them. View Video
	Ten Canoes: a film by Rolf de Heer & people of Ramingining "From its first frame, Ten Canoes announces itself as a film like no other"... A parable of forbidden love from Australia's mythical past, with storytelling by Australian icon David Gulpilil and starring his son Jamie as the covetous youth Dayindi, Ten Canoes is a ground-breaking glimpse into Aboriginal life centuries before European settlement. Shot in and around the Arafura Wetlands of Central Arnhem Land, Rolf De Heer and the people of Ramingining have created a pioneering and timeless tale for all people and all cultures. This feature film runs for 92 minutes in total. There are also 6 short documentaries, a feature slideshow, the Thomson Time photo gallery, and a study guide. This special edition double DVD set is available for purchase in the iDIDJ Store at the recommended retail price of AUD$34.95: http://www.ididj.com.au/store/movies.html View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Film by Nicholas Roeg, starring Jenny Agutter and David Gulpilil....Walkabout Jenny Agutter David Gulpilil View Video
	Russell Ngardayngarday Warnapuyngu - yirdaki expert Name: Russell Ngardayngarday Clan: Warnapuyngu Wagilak Homeland: Ngilipitji, Dhupuwamirri - eastern Arnhem Land Skin: Burralang' Age: 38 years Russell Ngardayngarday, also known as Russell Ashley, is recognised throughout the greater part of Arnhem Land as an expert didgeridoo player. His Aboriginal name means Stringybark (the tree species Eucalyptus tetradonta). He comes from the Warnapuyngu branch of the almighty Wagilak clan. Russell is one of 3 'Ashley' men known as expert yirdaki players, the others being older brothers Roy Wuyngumbi and Raymond Marpin. It was Marpin - a Guyula Djambarrpuyngu clansman - who taught Russell the finer points in yirdaki playing (Marpin and Ngardayngarday both have Ritharrngu mothers, who were sisters). Marpin has been a member of the David Gulpilil Dance Group and the Wak Wak Djunggi band, has toured internationally and is featured as the didgeridoo player on a 1991 cassette called "Djut Djut Djane" produced by David Gulpilil Productions. I was fortunate to have met and video recorded Marpin at Ramingining in the 1990s, during ceremonial performance, and will upload these clips to YouTube in the near-future. Back to Russell... his father was Peter Dawukarri and his mother Rosie Ngardiny (both deceased). His blood brothers include Djardie Wordalpa Ashley, who famously won the 1987 National Aboriginal Art Award (before it was renamed the Telstra National Aboriginal & Torres Strait Islander Art Award). Bertie Warrngga is another blood brother who has made enormous contributions to society, through employment in the government sector encompassing a broad range of fields. Because of Russell's reputation as a yirdaki maestro - and from different families and sources at that - I was keen to seek him out and to meet him. Which proved to be more difficult than I had imagined as Russell drifts between 4 distinct regions including the communities and outstations of Lake Evella, Oenpelli, Katherine, and Port Keats (where his wife is from). Last week, once in the NT, I travelled 1600 kilometres by road over 4 days in order to track Russell down. Persistence paid off and here are some video clips to show for the effort. Some comments as background material to accompany the clips... Russell is somewhat of a 'long-grasser' these days. The term will not be explained here and it is not meant to be derogatory in any way, just a fact of life. Russell has deteriorated in health as a result of living it rough, out in the open with no roof over his head, but worst still, getting stuck into the alcohol in a big way. And every day... With his brother's Warrngga's permission, I booked Russell into a hotel for 3 days and clothed, fed and looked after him. I was hoping he would get better, for me to hear the yirdaki magic. And also that Russell would regain some normality in his life that would have carry-over effect. The normality part did not succeed. When the recordings were done and Russell was paid, the next time I saw him he was fully intoxicated on the verandah of a church building, a popular hangout for long-grassers during the wet season. He was sound asleep and no amount of prodding by family members could rouse him. As for the recordings, note that Russell suffered 'grog shake' during the filming, a symptom of alcohol withdrawal. He improved over the days he was with me, with zinc, magnesium, calcium, vitamin C and vitamin B complex supplements, but not enough for him to fully recover. Russell is also missing 2 front teeth, a fact he pointed out to me in explaining his clumsy first day when I tried to record. The following segments were recorded at different times, on different days and in different places. Despite lack of practice, grog-shake, and missing teeth, most of it was good to very good, and there were moments of brilliance too which can be seen at the start of Segment 6. Segments 3 and 5 show side-views and breathing patterns can be heard quite clearly in these. Segment 7 has Russell playing a mago WAL style made by his brother-in-law, Dhugurun Gulunggurr of the Ritharrngu clan. With encouragement, hopefully I and Russell's family can inspire him to bigger things and higher goals in life. He is a good chap who has suffered some set backs in recent years. I was saddened to leave him as he was just starting to come out of his shell and on the last day with him, Russell was beginning to chat and laugh more comfortably. His glazed eyes were beginning to brighten, his shakes more controlable, and his warm and generous personality starting to shine through. View Video
	Walkabout, 1971 classic by Nicolas Roeg Very few films achieve a kind of subliminal greatness with cross-cultural impact, but Walkabout is one of those films--a visual tone poem that functions more as an allegory than a conventionally plotted adventure. Considered a cult favorite for years, Nicolas Roeg's 1971 film is about two British children who are rescued in the Australian outback by a young Aboriginal man played by David Gulpilil. Through exquisite cinematography and a story of subtle human complexity, the film continues to resonate on many thematic and artistic levels. Roeg had always intended it to be a cautionary morality tale, in which the limitations and restrictions of civilization become painfully clear when the two children (played by Jenny Agutter and Roeg's young son, Lucien John) cannot survive without the Aboriginal man's assistance. They become 'primitives' themselves, if only temporarily, while the young Aboriginal man proves ultimately and tragically unable to join the "family" of civilization. With its story of two worlds colliding, Walkabout now seems like a film for the ages, hypnotic and open to several compelling levels of interpretation. For purchase in the iDIDJ Store: http://www.ididj.com.au/store/movies.html View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 6 Walkabout...Jenny Agutter nick roeg walkabout david gulpilil australia outback View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 5 Walkabout...Jenny Agutter nick roeg walkabout david gulpilil australia outback View Video
	Walkabout (1971) - Trailer Directed by Nicolas Roeg....Walkabout Nicolas Nic Roeg Trailer 1971 outback David Gulpilil aborigine australia desert View Video
	How do Aboriginal people celebrate Christmas in Arnhem Land? This is 25th December 1996 in Ramingining, an Aboriginal community in north-central Arnhem Land made famous by the likes of star actor David Gulpilil and famous artist David Malangi. Christmas is one of the few times when normal avoidance relationships are relaxed. Avoidance relationships are those codified behaviours between particular kin, especially among 'poison' or 'taboo' relatives such as with one's mothers-in-law, sisters/brothers, 'poison-cousins' etc. A nice party was held in the house of Martin Garrangunung. Martin's sister, Shirley Gunhdhumawuy, worked for many years with the Department of Education in Darwin and made a strong contribution to Indigenous education policy. She purchased and prepared the food for this special day, and even sent out Christmas cards to family and friends in the community to come to join in the celebrations... I lived one door down from Martin's house, with Peter Djumbu and family, and was thrilled - actually rather surprised - to get such a card. I didn't think formalities like this mattered in remote Aboriginal communities! Anyway, a good time was had by all. If you're a fast runner with fast reflexes, you can avoid being hit by eggs and flour! View Video
	The Tracker (Australia) The year is 1922 and The Tracker (David Gulpilil, Walkabout, Rabbit-Proof Fence) has the job of pursuing The Fugitive - an aborigine who is suspected of murdering a white woman - as he leads three mounted policemen: The Fanatic, The Follower and also The Veteran across the outback. The Tracker, a mysterious and enigmatic figure whose true character remains unknown, assists them in their quest. As they move deeper into the bush and further away from civilization, the toxic forces of paranoia and violence begin to escalate, stirring up questions of what is black and what is white and who is leading whom. Their journey becomes an acrimonious and murderous trek that shifts power from one man to another, challenged by the indigenous people they come across as well as each other. More information and your DVD at www.africandiasporadvd.com View Video
	Ten Canoes - Trailer A parable of forbidden love from Australia's mythical past, with storytelling by Australian icon David Gulpilil (Crocodile Dundee and Rabbit-Proof Fence) and starring his son Jamie as the covetous youth Dayindi, Ten Canoes is a ground-breaking glimpse into aboriginal life centuries before European settlement. View Video
	Ten Canoes - Clip A parable of forbidden love from Australia's mythical past, with storytelling by Australian icon David Gulpilil (Crocodile Dundee and Rabbit-Proof Fence) and starring his son Jamie as the covetous youth Dayindi, Ten Canoes is a ground-breaking glimpse into aboriginal life centuries before European settlement View Video
	Initiation A premonition of disaster hits Danny Molloy (Rodney Harvey) as his plane lands at Adelaide airport. The 16-year-old street kid from Brooklyn has come to South Australia to make contact with his father (Bruno Lawrence) whom he has not seen for ten years. The accents, scenery and people are a bewildering jumble to Danny as he finds his way to the remote homestead where his father Nat. an ex-Vietnam pilot who runs a crop dusting outfit, lives. It is a shock to Nat Molloy, when his son suddenly turns up at his outback home. He is now living with a divorcee. Sal, (Arna-Maria Winchester) and her pretty teenage daughter, Stevie (Miranda Otto). Not only has his lifestyle changed since he split up with Danny's mother; he now faces financial ruin and has agreed to fly a consignment of marijuana down from the North. It is a bad time for the boy to appear and from their first meeting it is obvious the father and son's relationship is not going to be a smooth one. They argue and fight and through a series of misadventures, Danny ends up in a local brawl, gets arrested for stealing a car and narrowly misses giving the game away when he destroys the barn containing the marijuana. Through all the traumas, he has two allies. Stevie with whom he strikes up a romantic friendship and Kulu (David Gulpilil), an old Aboriginal medicine man who explains to him that a conspiracy of circumstances is at work. He isn't just having a run of bad luck but is being tested. He warns Danny that his time for initiation is approaching, gives him a charm -- a quartz stone and promises to help when 'the time' comes. Nat and Danny are finally bound together by events surrounding the drug run but before they can enjoy this new relationship they are put in a perilous situation when Danny's earlier premonition comes true. Nat's plane crashes in the mountains and he is badly hurt. It is up to Danny, the street kid raised among pinball parlors and fast food joints to find a way out of the wilderness. Father and son hack their way through scrub and forest, but Nat is almost done for. Danny leaves him in a sheltered cave to battle on alone. It is then that the evil spirits finally challenge him. View Video
	Stormy Weather An excerpt from the Australian movie"The Last Wave"....Peter Weir Richard Chamberlain David Gulpilil Prophecy Global Warming View Video
	Red Heart Trailer for the classic Australian movie "Walkabout"....Nicholas Roeg Jenny Agutter David Gulpilil John Meillon Ordeal Desert Nudity View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 3 shot of Jenny's feet as she's walking with Lucien on her back was shot by Jenny herself....Jenny Agutter nick roeg walkabout david gulpilil australia outback View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 4 Walkabout...Walkabout Jenny Agutter David Gulpilil nick nicholas roeg luke outback lost australia aborigine View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 2 Part 2 of the film...Jenny Agutter nick roeg walkabout david gulpilil australia outback View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 4 Walkabout...Walkabout Jenny Agutter David Gulpilil nick nicholas roeg luke outback lost australia aborigine View Video
	Walkabout (1971) Part 2 Part 2 of the film...Jenny Agutter nick roeg walkabout david gulpilil australia outback View Video
	Nouveaux visages de l'Australie aborigène Ce film met en relief les nouveaux destins des aborigènes qui ont intégré la modernité, imposée à eux par la violence. Ce choc a poussé les Australiens à s'interroger sur leur véritable identité, et à se reconnaître une nation multiculturelle, multicolore. En voir plus sur : http://www.vodeo.tv/2-63-4585-nouveaux-visages-de-l-australi e-aborigene.html?PARTID=9085 View Video

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