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There are three clocks on the wall of Rolf de Heer's Vertigo Productions, in Australia's City of Churches. They're set to Adelaide, Rome and Los Angeles time. The 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...
...older brother's young wife, and the cautionary tale Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) offers his brother while stripping trees for bark and building canoes ultimately weaves back into their own. "People talk about, What is a white director doing making an indigenous story? But I'm not," insists De Heer, 54. "They're telling the story, largely, and I'm the mechanism by which they...
...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...
Catherine R. Heer...
...preliminary results of the study are revolutionary because they indicate that contraception cannot curb the population rate in societies with high mortality, and that it becomes really effective only in societies of very low mortality. Thus Heer concludes that "progress in curbing the population explosion may best be brought about through further reduction in mortality," rather than increased contraception...