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...first and last are to be expected in an indie-film hothouse. As for the second - more on that later. But there should be a fourth. Ever since director De Heer was invited by legendary actor David Gulpilil to make a film about his home in north central Arnhem Land, the office has been running on Ramingining time. In the three years since, De Heer has been stretched physically, mentally and culturally. "I knew from the beginning that the process would be different to anything that I'd ever done before," says the award-winning director of Bad Boy Bubby...
...starting point was an old black-and-white photograph of canoe-making taken by anthropologist Donald Thomson in the 1930s, which Gulpilil showed De Heer in Arnhem Land. "We need 10 canoes," said the actor, who had starred in De Heer's previous film, The Tracker (2002). Arriving at a narrative that satisfied both the Yolngu's desire for traditional storytelling and Western audiences' need for plot and pace proved a lesson in cultural navigation. Many Yolngu neither speak English nor understand movie-making: "It was conceptually outside their thinking about the world," says De Heer. The Yolgnu's only...
...show which suggests the soaring escarpments and sweeping floodplains of western Arnhem Land, "Crossing Country" is more like entering a darkened cave...
...mimih created the oldest of the rock art that adorns more than a thousand sites in this freshwater region just south of Maningrida. More recently, Kuninjku artists have transposed their mimih to bark, with results no less magical. Comprising nearly 300 works, "Crossing Country: The Alchemy of Western Arnhem Land Art" documents the journey from one of the world's oldest art traditions to one of the newest. It's a landmark show in every...
...personally harvests and "stretches" over fire and under rocks, that's been the vehicle for his magic carpet ride. Last September, the wily, wild-haired sometime hunter, 52, won the $A30,000 Clemenger Contemporary Art Award at the National Gallery of Victoria. While a bark painting by Central Arnhem Land's David Malangi inspired the design of Australia's first dollar note, the genre hasn't always been a license to print money. When Maningrida barks were presented in Sydney in the early '70s, they were derided as "rubbish." It's taken European eyes to turn them into fine...