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...that I'd ever done before," says the award-winning director of Bad Boy Bubby, Dance Me to My Song and The Tracker, "that you basically have to throw out all the lessons you've ever learned and reinvent the way of making a film." From its first frames, Ten Canoes announces itself as a film like no other. At bird's-eye level, the camera glides across a watery landscape rarely seen other than by the 800 Yolngu inhabitants of Ramingining. We're in the heart of the Arafura Swamp, and over the alien sounds of chirrups, croaks...
...that matter, heard. When Ten Canoes has its world premiere as part of the Adelaide Festival of Arts this Sunday, it will be the first feature to play out almost entirely in an indigenous Australian language (Gulpilil's intermittent narration is in English, as are the subtitles). But in a film set before Western contact - where young warrior Dayindi (Gulpilil's son Jamie) hunts for goose eggs while being told Dreamtime stories - Ganalbingu, the language of the "magpie goose people," rules. Dayindi has been coveting his older brother's young wife, and the cautionary tale Minygululu (Peter Minygululu) offers...
...there's an edge to Gulpilil's laugh, there's good reason. Shot in a crocodile-infested lagoon just after last year's wet season, Ten Canoes was as thrilling in the making as it is on screen (its filming will be the subject of an SBS documentary, Eighteen Canoes, to be aired close to the film's Australian release in June). For up to seven hours a day, director and crew would wade through thick swamp, with crocodile spotters on platforms above. "It really was the leeches getting you from the waist down; mosquitoes from above the waist," says...
...Which brings us back to Ramingining time. Happy as he is with Ten Canoes ("I love it dearly - I look at it and think, This is a small miracle"), De Heer is just as proud of the effect the film will have on the lives of the Yolngu. "One of the great things at the end of the shoot was that Minygululu had picked out the tree that he was going to make his canoe from the next year," says the director, "and he'd picked out the route of his journey." For audiences too, Ten Canoes will...
...Harvard, we’re some of the biggest self-loathers of all.As stated in a sports column earlier this week, a newly introduced “Academic Progress Rate” (APR) released by the NCAA found that Harvard is home to 18 teams in the top ten of their respective sports based on the standard, ten of those teams having received perfect scores according to the rating.That’s fine and dandy, but, remind me again, when was the last time the Crimson won a Rose Bowl? Oh, right. 1920.You see, we might have some...