A boy, his dingo, and an emu that may not exist — Australia's most underrated fever dream.
A First Nations boy in the Australian outback adopts an injured dingo. The two of them set off on a quest to find an emu.
Cinematography
The outback looks impossibly vast and lonely.
Practical Effects
That dingo actually seems to tolerate this production.
Score
Oddly crunchy synths meet didgeridoo. 1978 was wild.
Director
Roy Edward Disney
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Roy Edward Disney — Walt's nephew — directed this between his real job of saving Disney Animation from corporate doom. It's his only live-action directing credit.
Made with Arrernte people in Alice Springs, but told through a white narrator's voice — a tension the film never resolves, making it a complicated artifact of its era.
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