from our perspective and culture. It took a film in the special Australian station reserved for the indigenes to offer me an access to their approach to live.
When watching a film about the Australia of the many local tribes, I managed to comprehend more than in reading many clever books. The first thing that hit me: From start to the end, there was no commentary at all. Forty-five minutes with no music and no word, and still, the message was brutally clear: If you do not understand this, you won’t need explanations! What contempt of our rationalizing world!
The film only consists of outstanding shots of valleys, animals, and vegetation. The only action shows a father who wanders through this beautiful landscape, from time-to-time pointing out certain places or plants to his son. If you watch the film several times, you can survive in this deserted Australian environment, I am sure! Also, the silent meta-message was crying out loud: We only live to enable our children to survive.
What a contrast towards the typical nature films from the US or Europe with their schmaltzy closures! So, this film initiated the following book. Still understanding only very little of their thinking, the Aborigines may forgive my interpretations! Living ten thousands of years apart, I did my best!
Geneva, December of 2015
Larry B. Ritter
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