We’re in Another Country – but David Gulpilil is Here to Help Dan Edwards July 2015 Special Dossier: Focus on David Gulpilil at MIFF 2015 Another Country is a film that takes time. As the narrator, co-writer and Australian screen star David Gulpilil notes at one point, “There’s never enough time in white fella culture.” Especially, he could have ...
What Happened To Billy?: David Gulpilil on Mad Dog Morgan Jake Wilson July 2015 Special Dossier: Focus on David Gulpilil at MIFF 2015 It’s December 2014, and I’m researching a book on the 1976 bushranger film Mad Dog Morgan – one of the best Australian films of the 1970s, a far-out antipodean Western directed by the much underrated pop surrea...
An Authentic Dreamtime: David Gulpilil and The Last Wave (Peter Weir, 1977) Lisa French July 2015 Special Dossier: Focus on David Gulpilil at MIFF 2015 This is a big, true story of my people… (David Gulpilil, Ten Canoes) Over more than thirty years, actor, dancer, musician and visual artist David Gulpilil has been deeply engaged in telling the “big, true” sto...