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Issue Details: First known date: 2010... 2010 David Gulpilil
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'If you asked most Australians where they think David Gulpilil, our most decorated indigenous performer, might live, most would probably shrug their shoulders and say: "I don't know ... Bondi maybe. Isn't that where all the other actors live?" David is in fact the link between our Westernised urban sprawl and a land and culture that is as old as time. He is one of the rare glimpses into a vanishing culture that he hugs as fiercely as we hug the bosom of our coastal cities. When you look into David's face you see the Arafura Swamp, the Glyde River, the oncoming Wet season and the steely Barru hunter preparing for an all night hunt so that he can feed his family. And when that face breaks into a broad grin you know that you are welcome on his land, but only if you respect it with your very soul.' (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon Australian Perspectives Essays Australian Centre for the Moving Image , Melbourne : Australian Centre for the Moving Image , 2010 11373133 2010 website criticism

    'As part of the Australian Perspectives program at ACMI, industry guests and cinema academics discuss Australian films, and directors provide us with some exclusive insights into their work. ' (Website introduction)

    Melbourne : Australian Centre for the Moving Image , 2010
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