He was a man who danced between two worlds, carried stories across continents and, on his final journey, returned to the land that made him.
Before his death in November 2021 , actor David Gulpilil made one final request: to be laid to rest in his ancestral home, deep in remote East Arnhem Land. Honouring that wish became a monumental undertaking and the subject of a documentary releasing across Australia next week called Journey Home, David Gulpilil. Vale David Gulpilil: the inimitable actor who changed the movies, and changed us Read more
It was a profound repatriation spanning more than 4,000 kilometres, unfolding over almost a year and beginning in Murray Bridge, South Australia, where Gulpilil was receiving treatment for terminal lung cancer. Planes, boats, vans and helicopter