Clip description
Rolf de Heer oversees the construction of swamp canoes that will be used in the film Ten Canoes (2006).
This clip chosen to be PG
Rolf de Heer oversees the construction of swamp canoes that will be used in the film Ten Canoes (2006).
This clip shows Indigenous people from the Ramingining region in Arnhem Land in the Northern Territory rediscovering the old ways of making bark canoes. The immense significance of this rediscovery to the people is explained by Rolf de Heer in voice-over. To make the canoe, which is to be used in de Heer’s film Ten Canoes, men cut bark, and then soak and heat it, shaping it and securing the bow. Black-and-white photographs from 1937, including the photograph that was the inspiration for Ten Canoes, are shown. A younger man asks how to make canoes.
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