Thomson Times and Ten Canoes (de Heer and Djigirr, 2006)

Reel Indigeneity:Ten Canoesand its chronotopical politics of Ab/Originality

“…Mainstream critics have focused on Ten Canoes' mixed authorship through the Yolngu community's contribution to its plot (see Davis 2007;Hamby 2007), and this may derive in an essentialist search for authorial authenticity and originality in the tradition of fidelity criticism -Hiatt 2007 is a good example of the latter. Yet authorship is an issue that deserves critical attention for the ways the film promotes hybridism.…”