In the 1930's, anthropologist Donald Thompson, took a grainy black and white photograph of a group of ten aboriginal men poling their bark canoes through the Arafura Swamp in north-eastern Arnhem Land, in the far north of the Northern Territory of...read the complete Ten Canoes (2007) review at ABC Radio (Jennifer Fallon)
in the natural order, or a paean to the importance of narrative, or even a commentary on the horrendous mistakes that superstitious mobs can make. But mostly, it's a feat of immersive ethnography, explaining the dynamics of hunter-gatherers by letting us ...read the complete Ten Canoes (2007) review at The Onion (A.V. Club) ()
Over the past two years the number of features made in Australia has dropped to record lows. By contrast, this year has seen a substantial increase, and, over the next three months, 16 local movies will be released, the largest number at any one time in...read the complete Ten Canoes (2007) review at World Socialist Web Site