Ten Canoes / Sioux Ghost Dance / Buffalo Dance

Approx. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

Ten Canoes / Sioux Ghost Dance / Buffalo Dance

Approx. Duration: 1 hour 30 minutes

TIFF Cinematheque - Retrospective

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The Cannes award-winning fable from Australia is preceded by two of the earliest filmed records of Indigenous peoples ever made.

Films in Ten Canoes / Sioux Ghost Dance / Buffalo Dance

    • Sioux Ghost Dance
    • William Dickson

    • Made at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, this very brief short film presents some of the first images of First Peoples ever captured on screen: a troupe of performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show filmed in traditional dance.

    • Buffalo Dance
    • William Dickson

    • Made at Thomas Edison's Black Maria studio in West Orange, New Jersey, this very brief short film presents some of the first images of First Peoples ever captured on screen: a troupe of performers from Buffalo Bill's Wild West Show filmed in traditional dance.

    • Ten Canoes
    • Rolf de Heer, Peter Djigirr

    • This entrancing fable set in a mythic, pre-colonial Australian past was a worldwide festival hit and won the Special Jury Prize in the Un Certain Regard section of the Cannes Film Festival.