Film Screening (90 min., in various Yolngu dialects, with English subtitles) and Discussion: Stephen Gilchrist, curator of /Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia/, Harvard Art Museum /Ten Canoes/ (2006) explores an Indigenous Australian story with a poignant message about the responsibilities of men as husbands and statesmen. Directed by Rolf de Heer, the film is set in Arnhem Land—one of the five regions of the Northern Territory of Australia—and it is the first Australian feature with dialogue in an Indigenous language. The film interweaves past and present using both color and black-and-white scenes inspired by the photographs of Donald Thomson, an anthropologist who worked in Arnhem Land in the mid-1930s. A discussion with Stephen Gilchrist, curator of /Everywhen: The Eternal Present in Indigenous Art from Australia/, a current exhibition at the Harvard Art Museums, will follow the screening. “Mesmerizing…Both the storyteller’s tale and the movie that contains it, transports you out of time.” —Stephen Holden, /New York Times
Free parking is available at the 52 Oxford Street Garage.
Presented in partnership with the Harvard Art Museums.
