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"CANNIBAL TOURS" »

"There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it."

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Tim Litchfield
associate producers - L.J. Henderson & Chris Owen

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"COULDN'T BE FAIRER" »

Mick Miller: "We are living on the fringes of a white, affluent society, treated as fourth and fifth class citizens ... We are truly strangers in our own land."

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Tim Litchfield & Ruth Cullen
written and narrated by Mick Miller

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CUNNAMULLA »

"In outback Australia, a group of marginal but compelling characters play out the daily drama of their lives in ways that are alternatively shocking, sad or hilarious."

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Dennis O'Rourke & Andrea Lang
executive producers for Film Australia - Stefan Moore & Chris Oliver

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HALF LIFE - A PARABLE FOR THE NUCLEAR AGE »

"MARCH 1, 1954 - THE HEIGHT OF THE COLD WAR. IN THE PACIFIC, IT WAS THE DAY THE 'SNOW' FELL ..."

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Tim Litchfield
music - Bob Brozman

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ILEKSEN »

"The extraordinary companion piece to YUMI YET, recording the excitement of politics in Papua New Guinea during the first election after colonial rule."

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke & Gary Kildea
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Peter Berry
sound recording - Gary Kildea

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"The film itself is an act of love: its ardour, evasions, hypocrisies, idealism, its unhealable wounds
...nakedly open, non-exploitive and truly harrowing ...a great film."
- Michael Wilmington, Los Angeles Times

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Tim Litchfield

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THE SHARKCALLERS OF KONTU »

"About 150 people live in the village of Kontu. Of these, only a handful of men still understand the ancient rituals which allow them to go out to sea in frail canoes - to call, trap and kill sharks by hand."

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Stewart Young
associate producer - Chris Owen

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YAP ... How Did You Know We'd Like TV? »

"Be careful when you sit under a coconut tree ... a falling coconut makes no sound."
- an Island warning

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Dennis O'Rourke / editing - Peter Berry

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YUMI YET »

"An exuberant celebration - the world acclaimed portrait of Papua New Guinea at the time of the nation's independence festivities... An extraordinarily beautiful film... not to be missed." - Time Out, London

directed and produced by Dennis O'Rourke
photography - Richard Marks, Alan Shepherd, Dennis O'Rourke
editing - Tom Foley

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