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Jul. 4th, 2006 12:21 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
nigeltdeThere was just a great documentary on the ABC on David Gulpilil called Gulpilil: One Red Blood.* They'll surely replay it so keep an eye out; he's a remarkable man and oh so dreamy.
Last Thursday for the Amnesty Int. Australia Youth Summit, which was held in Adelaide this year, and which the campus group I'm a part of helped put together, we had a movie night for the YS delegates and the general public. We chose Ten Canoes (in a lucky coincidence it was opening that night) and Rolf de Heer was kind enough to actually come in and introduce the film and answer questions after. I highly recommend the movie (to be honest I preferred The Tracker but that's kind of like saying you prefer Strangelove to Clockwork Orange, know what I mean?) which if nothing else is about storytelling: about how to tell a story and how to listen to one; about how things happen in stories just as they should; about how they change with each telling, creating a plurality of truths; about how we make our ancestors' stories our own; about the construction and intertwining of truth and history and tale; and about the role of storytelling, how it's educational and positions us in important relationships in time and space and creates joy and pain and laughter (and yes, I am a pretentious arts student, how did you know?). Oh, and it's funny as, and Gulpilil's narration is so adorably cheeky.
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*Actually it was kind of superficial and yet still massively interesting, which just goes to show the depths to be plumbed here, and the fabulousness that is Gulpilil.
Last Thursday for the Amnesty Int. Australia Youth Summit, which was held in Adelaide this year, and which the campus group I'm a part of helped put together, we had a movie night for the YS delegates and the general public. We chose Ten Canoes (in a lucky coincidence it was opening that night) and Rolf de Heer was kind enough to actually come in and introduce the film and answer questions after. I highly recommend the movie (to be honest I preferred The Tracker but that's kind of like saying you prefer Strangelove to Clockwork Orange, know what I mean?) which if nothing else is about storytelling: about how to tell a story and how to listen to one; about how things happen in stories just as they should; about how they change with each telling, creating a plurality of truths; about how we make our ancestors' stories our own; about the construction and intertwining of truth and history and tale; and about the role of storytelling, how it's educational and positions us in important relationships in time and space and creates joy and pain and laughter (and yes, I am a pretentious arts student, how did you know?). Oh, and it's funny as, and Gulpilil's narration is so adorably cheeky.
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*Actually it was kind of superficial and yet still massively interesting, which just goes to show the depths to be plumbed here, and the fabulousness that is Gulpilil.
