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This information trail and reading list provides links to materials about the 2006 film Ten Canoes, and works that address the themes of resilience, resistance, and self-representation.
These resources have been compiled by Professor Anita Heiss.
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Screen cap from promotional trailerSee full AustLit entryA story within a story and overlaid with narration, Ten Canoes takes place in two periods in the past. The first story, filmed in black-and-white as a reference to the 1930s ethnographic photography of Donald Thompson, concerns a young man called Dayindi who takes part in his first hunt for goose eggs. During the course of several trips to hunt, gather and build a bark canoe, his older brother Minygululu tells him a story about their ancestors and the old laws. The story is also about a young man who had no wife but who coveted one of his brother's wives, and also of the stranger who disrupted the harmony of their lives.
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Director, producer, and script-writer.
Born in Heemskerk in The Netherlands, Rolf de Heer emigrated to Australia when he was eight years old. He graduated from the Australian Film, Televison and Radio School (AFTRS) in Sydney in 1980.
His first film, produced independently in 1984 and both written and directed by de Heer, was Tale of a Tiger, in which schoolboy Orville's fascination with model planes accelerates when he meets Harry, owner of a genuine but sadly neglected Tiger Moth.
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Actor and producer Peter Djigirr is known for films Ten Canoes, Charlie's Country, and documentary, Another Country. In addition to his film career, Djigirr is a Gurruwiling Ranger for the South-East Arafura Catchment in the Northern Territory.
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