Programmed August 2022

Starring David Gulpilil

Featuring the documentaries Gulpilil—One Red Blood and My Name Is Gulpilil “I know how to walk across the land in front of a camera, because I belong there,” said David Gulpilil, the late, legendary Yolngu actor who, beginning as a teenager with his very first film role in Nicolas Roeg’s Walkabout , redefined the the way that Indigenous people were represented in Australian cinema and became an international ambassador for the resilience and dignity of his culture. His physical grace (he was an equally celebrated dancer) and intense charisma made him a defining face of the Australian New Wave in classics such as Storm Boy and The Last Wave , while acclaimed personal projects like Ten Canoes and Charlie’s Country —which he cowrote and for which he won an acting award at the Cannes Film Festival—allowed him to explore Australian history and society from an Aboriginal perspective.