In this clip from Bad Boy Bubby (Rolf de Heer, 1993), Bubby (Nicholas Hope) follows the sound of singing until he finds a group from the Salvation Army.

Ten Canoes (Rolf de Heer, 2006) follows the story of Dayindi (Jamie Gulpilil), a young Aboriginal warrior, as he wanders the wilderness hunting for eggs.

In 2017 the NFSA screened The Tracker and hosted a Q&A afterwards with director Rolf de Heer, in which he spoke about the film’s influences, production and legacy.

David Gulpilil in, The Tracker (2002).

Written and directed by Rolf de Heer, The Tracker features David Gulpilil as an Aboriginal tracker in 1922, who leads three white men in the hunt for a black fugitive.

Bad Boy Bubby was conceived as an experiment on virtually every level. It had 32 different cinematographers, for example.