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'Two recent 'Fourth World' films, the Canadian-Inuit Atanarjuat The Fast Runner (2000, dir. Zacharias Kunuk) and the Australian-Yolngu Ten Canoes (2006, dir. de Heer/Djigirr), locate their stories in a pre-European time frame that perhaps inevitably borrows from the familiar representational framework of traditional ethnography...'