Our readers were quick to let us know how much they enjoyed our recent feature, David Gulpilil: A look back.

Gulpilil’s impressive body of work was profiled through a collection of trailers from his films and still remains one of this sites highest read articles. You can check it out here.

With the release of Rolf de Heer’s Charlie’s Country nearing we thought we’d put together a feature focusing on the legendary auteur’s career through trailers and clips from his debut Tale of a Tiger to his more recent features.

Enjoy.

Did you know: de Heer holds the honor of co-producing and directing the only motion picture, Dingo, in which the jazz legend Miles Davis appears as an actor. (Source: Wikipedia)

Tale of a Tiger (1984)
Primary school aged Orville has a fascination for model planes which intensifies when he encounters Harry who owns a sadly neglected but real Tiger Moth. Orville becomes obsessed with the notion that the Tiger might fly once more and the adventure begins when he and Harry set out to achieve that goal.

Incident at Raven’s Gate (1988)
Ex-con Eddie Cleary gets a job working on his older brother’s isolated farm. It’s not long before bizarre things start happening–dead birds falling out of the sky, family pets attacking their owners, strange apparitions beginning to appear, and people who had been “normal” suddenly going insane.

Dingo (1991)
Traces the pilgrimage of John Anderson, an average guy with a passion for jazz, from his home in outback Western Australia to the jazz clubs of Paris, to meet his idol, jazz trumpeter Billy Cross.

Bad Boy Bubby (1993)
Bubby has spent thirty years trapped in the same small room, tricked by his mother. One day, he manages to escape, and, deranged and naive in equal measures, his adventure into modern life begins.

Alien Visitor (1997)
In this sci-fi adventure a gorgeous alien woman is sent to Earth by mistake from the planet Epsilon. Landing in the Australian outback she meets a surveyor and they cross the continent together. However, she spends the trip haranguing him for the ecological recklessness and avarice of the human race.

The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001)
A man is forced to confront a dangerous female jaguar and his own past through the sacrificial killing of the beast he has grown to love.

The Tracker (2002)
It’s 1922; somewhere in Australia. When a Native Australian man is accused of murdering a white woman, three white men (The Fanatic, The Follower and The Veteran) are given the mission of capturing him with the help of an experienced Native Australian (The Tracker). So they start their quest in the outback, not knowing that their inner wrestles against and for racism will be more dangerous that the actual hunting for the accused.

Alexandra’s Project (2003)
A regular suburban family man comes home from work on his birthday to find a deserted house and a videotape waiting to be played…

Ten Canoes (2006)
An elder of an Indigenous tribe in Australia’s Northern territory realizes a youngster on his first geese hunt is tempted to adultery with an elder brother’s wife. Therefore he explains how traditionally the youth is told elaborate, edifying stories, like this one, since the earliest existence of the tribe, about how evil slips in, notably by sorcery, and ends up causing immense havoc unless prevented by virtue according to customary tribal law.

Dr. Plonk (2007)
A scientist & inventor in 1907, Dr Plonk, predicts that the world will end in 101 years, unless something is done about it. A comedy in the Charlie Chaplin / Buster Keaton tradition.

The King is Dead (2007)
A young couple buy a house but their neighbor is a drug dealer who originates many troubles so they create a plan to move him out.

Charlie’s Country (2014)
Blackfella Charlie is out of sorts. The intervention is making life more difficult on his remote community, what with the proper policing of whitefella laws now. So Charlie takes off, to live the old way, but in so doing sets off a chain of events in his life that has him return to his community chastened, and somewhat the wiser.

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