Gulpilil.
1) The tracker
Publisher
Facets Video
Pub. Date
2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Set in 1922 in the outback, the story follows three mounted policemen and an Aboriginal tracker on a mission to bring to justice a black man accused of murdering a white woman. The party's leader is a sadistic racist known simply as the Fanatic. Their guide, the Tracker, is a resourceful and complex character, who keeps everyone guessing until the end. They are constantly half a day behind the Fugitive. Frustrations spill over as the tension mounts....
2) Ten canoes
Publisher
[distributed by] Palm Pictures
Pub. Date
[2007], c2006
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sd., col. and b&w ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In the distant past, Dayindi covets his older brother's wife. To teach him the proper way, he is told a parable of forbidden love from the mythical past, a story of wrong love, kidnapping, sorcery, and revenge gone wrong.
Publisher
ArtMattan Films
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (56 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Legendary Aboriginal actor and Australian icon David Gulpilil's life has been one of dueling lifestyles, with his jet-setting movie star life on a completely different plane from his life as an Aboriginal village elder, and director Darlene Johnson manages to capture intimate details from both lifestyles in her 2003 biographical documentary GULPILIL: ONE RED BLOOD. At the age of 17, Gulpilil made history as the first Aboriginal actor to appear on...
Publisher
Umbrella Entertainment
Pub. Date
1980.
Physical Desc
1 online resource (streaming video file) (49 minutes): digital, .flv file, sound
Description
Produced and directed this documentary for BBC in the 1980’s, about David Gulpilil, acclaimed Australian Aboriginal actor, dancer and musician. The film shows how Gulpilil is always working to bridge the gap between the tribal Aboriginal and Western worlds. He divides his time between a traditional tribal lifestyle and his artistic work, which has included major film roles, collaboration with contemporary dance and music groups and teaching Aboriginal...
Pub. Date
2018
Physical Desc
1 DVD (110 min.) : sound, color ; 12 cm
Description
Detective Jay Swan arrives in the frontier town of Goldstone on a missing persons inquiry, and what seems like a simple investigation unearths a web of crime, corruption human trafficking, and the exploitation of aboriginal lands.
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (97 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A free spirited Australian who hunts crocodiles with his bare hands, stares down giant water buffaloes, and drinks mere mortals under the table, faces the ultimate torture test--a trip to New York City.
Publisher
Buena Vista Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2003], c2002
Physical Desc
1 DVD (93 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
In 1931, Molly and her younger cousins, Gracie and Daisy, were three half-caste children from Western Australia who were taken from their parents under government edict and sent to an institution, were taught to forget their families, their culture, and re-invent themselves as members of "white" Australian society. The three girls begin an epic journey back to Western Australia, travelling 1,500 miles on foot with no food or water, and navigating...
9) Storm boy
Publisher
Good Deed Entertainment
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
1 DVD (99 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
'Storm Boy' has grown up to be Michael Kingley, a successful retired businessman and grandfather. When Kingley starts to see images from his past that he can't explain, he is forced to remember his long-forgotten childhood, growing up on an isolated coastline with his father. He recounts to his granddaughter the story of how, as a boy, he rescued and raised an extraordinary orphaned pelican, Mr. Percival. Their remarkable adventures and very special...
10) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Formats
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, in this hypnotic masterpiece. Along the way, they met a young aborigine on his 'walkabout, ' a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.
11) Walkabout
Series
Criterion collection volume 10
Publisher
The Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
[2010]
Physical Desc
2 DVDs (100 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.+ 1 booklet.
Description
A young sister and brother are abandoned in the harsh Australian outback and must learn to exist in the natural world, without their usual comforts, with the help of a young aboriginal boy on his "walkabout", a rite of passage in which adolescent boys are initiated into manhood by journeying into the wilderness alone.