Word: deserter
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...abstract, it came out of the experience of nature and culture blended. Perhaps the decisive moment in Klee's early career was a 1914 visit that he and his friend August Macke paid to Tunisia, where the warm, sparse earth colors, the heat and the townscape of Hammamet, a desert construction of white boxes and bubbling domes, affected him so powerfully that he was at last able to tell his diary that "color and I are one. I am a painter." The vision of the cellular-grid forms of Tunis, though he never went back there, would always stay with...
...attempts to run the border are growing costlier and more dangerous. Since Sept. 11, the demand for smugglers who guide workers through remote crossings has risen, doubling the average fee to $2,000. Tougher enforcement in border cities has pushed migrants to cross through the desert, where some die of dehydration. Francisco Perez has made four solo attempts. Now, he says, "my family will hire someone"--meaning a smuggler to guide him through the desert. Sept. 11 has made it both tougher to cross into the U.S. and ever more urgent...
Soaring like a bird, the camera tilts toward the sun across the desert landscape, turning its creek beds and clumps of spinifex into a shimmering tableau not unlike an Aboriginal dot painting. So begins Rabbit-Proof Fence, the filmed real-life account of three Aboriginal girls removed under the assimilation policy of 1930s Western Australia?and their long walk home. For the rest of the film, Christopher Doyle's camera never stops moving; cowering in darkness at the mission the young girls are taken to, then feeling its way like braille across 2,000 sun-scorched kilometers, to a ring...
...film that treads an at times predictable path, Doyle's work is at once moody, mysterious and mesmeric. Like black tracker Moodoo (powerfully played by David Gulpilil), he sees things in the desert that others can't: sources of Aboriginal dreaming in the color-saturated opening scenes, to ghostly presences in bleached-out hues as the girls struggle to survive in the desert heat. Here they become dots in a more timeless, mythological canvas. "There's no question that the landscape made the film," says Doyle. "So our job was to find the right spaces and time...
...better, then, to get down and dirty in the Australian desert? For Rabbit-Proof Fence's most gut-wrenching scene, Doyle used a hand-held camera to record the all-too-real distress of the girls as they are torn from their mother (Ningali Lawford) and thrown into a police car. "He was able to free up the filmmaking process and allow our stars, who were untrained and had never acted before, to feel unburdened and just be themselves," recalls director Noyce...