Title The Skin of Others

Published Ronin Films, 2020 [San Francisco, California, USA] : Kanopy Streaming, 2022

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Description 1 online resource (streaming video file) (91 minutes) : .flv file, sound Summary A story of modern Australia and the way we understand our national history told through two extraordinary lives: Aboriginal WW1 soldier Douglas Grant (c.1885-1951), and Balang Tom E. Lewis, the charismatic actor who plays him in this film. Douglas Grant was a famous man in his day - an intellectual, a journalist, a soldier, and a bagpipe player with a fine Scottish accent. His life connects some of the most famous figures and events of the 19th and 20th Century. These figures include Archduke Franz Ferdinand, Adolf Hitler, and Australia's most famous writer of the time, Henry Lawson. The events include the two foundational conflicts of Australian and world history: the Frontier Wars that remade sovereign Aboriginal nation-territories into the Commonwealth of Australia, and WW1, a conflict that has provided Australian histories with a foundational narrative of tragic heroism and national pride in the ANZAC story. In short, Grant was a cultural bridge-builder when it was extremely dangerous to be an Aboriginal man seeking reconciliation across the Australian racial divide. Played by the acclaimed Indigenous actor Tom E. Lewis in his final performance (as Douglas Grant), this is also a film that celebrates Lewis' unique ability to inhabit THE SKIN OF OTHERS. From Lewis' debut screen performance as Jimmie Blacksmith in THE CHANT OF JIMMIE BLACKSMITH, he has graced Australian screens and stages with his intelligence, charisma, wit and empathy. This film offers further evidence of his ability to articulate the lives of others. Here, consciously harnessing his own life-experience to the task of presenting Douglas Grant, Lewis demonstrates what a great loss he is to the Australian community Notes Title from title frames Film In Process Record Performer Archie Roach, Balang Tom E. Lewis, Max Cullen Event Originally produced by Ronin Films in 2020 Notes In English Subject Aboriginal Australians. Anthropology. Ethnicity. Australians. Mass media and culture. Mass media. History, Military History, Modern. Artists. Motion pictures. Indigenous peoples. Enthnology Sociology. Documentary films. Arts. Foreign study. Digital communications. Social sciences. anthropology. ethnicity. mass media. sociology. social sciences. Aboriginal Australians Anthropology Artists Arts Australians Digital communications Documentary films Ethnicity Foreign study History, Military History, Modern Indigenous peoples Mass media Mass media and culture Motion pictures Social sciences Sociology Genre/Form documentary film. Documentary films Documentary films. Documentaires. Form Streaming video Author Murray, Tom, film director Roach, Archie, actor Tom E. Lewis, Balang, actor Cullen, Max, actor Ronin Films (Firm) Kanopy (Firm)

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