David Gulpilil's work on Film , TV and Video
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Click the buttons to explore these links and read about Gulpilil's
film career:
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Internet Movie Database list of Gulpilil's
film and TV work.
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The Tracker -
Gulpilil's most recent film, premiered at the Adelaide Festival of Arts
2002, now being screened in the U.S. This is Gulpilil's first starring
role since "Walkabout." |
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Information about the film Rabbit-Proof Fence in which Gulpilil plays a
tracker hired to pursue three ethically mixed Aboriginal girls taken from their
birth families and placed in an institution. It is a "Stolen
Generations" story which was distributed in the U.S. by Miramax and
is now available on DVD. |
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A review of The Tracker. |
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One Red Blood
-- Darlene Johnson's extraordinary biography of Gulpilil, his
work and his traditional life in Arnhem Land, Northern Territory. This
documentary features never-before-seen footage of sacred rituals which
tribal elders permitted Johnson to film. |
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Review of One Red Blood |
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Information about
Serenades, a Gulpilil picture from 2000
filmed in New Zealand. |
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This link goes to a review of a little-known 1987 Australian
movie with Gulpilil. It is available on video in the US but was
never released in Australia. Title: DARK AGE.
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A review of Walkabout,
Gulpilil's first and most famous movie, featuring several competing cultural
analyses. |
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A wonderful website providing nformation
about Storm
Boy, a beloved Australian film about a motherless boy, his pet
pelican, and his Aboriginal friend "Fingerbone Bill" played by Gulpilil.
Many Australians remember Gulpilil more for this film than
for Walkabout. |
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Naked Under Capricorn 9
Network-Resolution Films-Revcom / 2x120m-e / 1989 17-18 September -- A period drama serial featuring
David Gulpilil as
Activity. |
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A radio interview with
Gulpilil in which he discusses his work in film. |
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More Gulpilil on radio: An
article describing an early radio broadcast by Gulpilil at the beginning
of his career. |
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Gulpilil plays a supporting role in an
episode of the Australian and British
television series Boney (a detective series with a white New Zelander
playing a half-caste Aboriginal crime fighter in the outback.) Gulpilil
also appears in the following episodes: "Boney and the Payback
Killer"; "Boney and the Black Virgin"; "Boney Buys a Woman"; "Boney and the Burial
Tree." |
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An episode of Young Ramsy, a
popular Australian television series that ran in 1980, was called "Dreamtime" and featured
David Gulpilil as the storyteller. |
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University Of Sydney Videos: Aboriginal Dance--David
Gulpilil
45 minutes Colour 1978
Archival source for the recording of a performance by David Gulpilil and the Aboriginal Dance
Group at the Faculty of Architecture.
Order Number AR037 (unavailable outside Australia, sadly) |
