Australia’s first contemporary Indigenous dance film is an exhilirating cinematic debut for choreographer Stephen Page and his talented team of local film-makers• Guardian Australia film club in Adelaide – book your tickets nowA near-silent contemporary dance film tracking the troubled history of Indigenous people in Australia and the coming of age of a teenage boy trying to invent sense of it all? Descriptions of Spear,a strange and fair beast adapted from work developed by Sydneys Bangarra Dance Theatre, will suggest a film that is, or God forbid,unique – a word nearly entirely extinguished from the cinematic lexicon.
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Source: theguardian.com