David Gulpilil returns domestic with filmmaker Molly Reynolds to explore “what happened to my culture when it was interrupted by your culture”David Gulpilil – magnetic Indigenous actor connecting two AustraliasFilm-maker Rolf De Heer’s achingly fine 2014 character study Charlie’s Country,co-written by and starring David Gulpilil, could have been called Another Country – the title of director Molly Reynolds’ new documentary exploring Gulpilil’s domestic community of Ramininging, and Northern Territory. Both films focus on settings that to the huge majority of viewers will feel exotic but familiar,close but far away: a country very different from the Australia viewers with choc-tops in their hands and apps on their smartphones are likely to be familiar with. Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com