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Contemporary Screen

Area and regional premieres, films fresh from the international film festival circuit, award-winners and recent audience favorites...You'll find films you won't see anywhere else in central Ohio on the Contemporary Screen schedule.

Ten Canoes

(Rolf de Heer, 2006)

Thu, Sept 6–Fri, Sept 7, 2007  |  7:00PM
Film/Video Theater

"To watch this movie (shot in breathtaking widescreen by cinematographer Ian Jones) is to enter into a whole new language of symbols and meaning." —Scott Foundas, Village Voice

Set among and featuring Australia's Ramingining Aboriginal community, Ten Canoes is a hypnotic blend of two drastically different modes of storytelling: contemporary cinema and the tradition of oral narrative. Filled with beautiful landscapes and often bawdy humor, the film takes place in an unspecified past and follows a group of hunters and their leader, who uses ancient parables to teach his group about love, jealousy, and revenge. The film is inspired by the early-20th-century photographs of anthropologist Donald Thomson. (90 mins, 35mm)