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'An aging man ambles down a dirt road, walking slowly away from the camera. He seems to be alone, until we realise he’s stalking an emu, which crosses to the other side of the track. He stops and turns to look at the camera, looks back to the emu, and begins walking towards us. The emu cautiously follows, and the pair walk up the hill in lockstep. This extraordinary cinematic moment provides an apt symbolic opening for Molly Reynolds’ documentary portrait of one of Australia’s finest actors, David Gulpilil. Its power, however, is immediately undercut by the subsequent image of the same man hooked up to medical equipment, receiving treatment for his now various ailments.'  (Introduction)

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    y separately published work icon History Australia vol. 18 no. 4 2021 23761646 2021 periodical issue

    'On 1 September 2021, Tasmanian Aboriginal artist Julie Gough’s work ‘Breathing Space’ was unveiled in Hobart. This artwork is part of the City of Hobart’s ‘Crowther Reinterpretation Project’, for which four artists have been invited to create works responding to the statue of William Crowther. The project aims to ‘acknowledge, question, provoke discussion or increase awareness’ about Crowther, especially his treatment of the body of well-known Aboriginal leader William Lanne after his death in the 1860s. In Gough’s work, the statue of Crowther has been removed from public view, boxed up in a black timber crate. Visitors can scan a QR code nearby and be directed to a webpage that provides a printable amended wording for the plinth. Gough told ABC Hobart that she had avoided walking past the statue for 20 years, but now the statue was covered, ‘I can sit here, knowing he's not looking down on us…when he was crated you could feel Hobart breathe. It was amazing.' (Editorial introduction)

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