Gurrumul

2018 • 96 minutes

About this movie

Celebrated by audiences at home and abroad, Indigenous artist Geoffrey Gurrumul Yunupingu was one of the most important and acclaimed voices to ever come out of Australia. Blind from birth, he found purpose and meaning through songs and music inspired by his community and country on Elcho Island in far North East Arnhem Land. Living a traditional Yolngu life, his breakthrough album ‘Gurrumul’ brought him to a crossroads as audiences and artists around the world began to embrace his music.
GURRUMUL is a portrait of an artist on the brink of global reverence, and the struggles he and those closest to him faced in balancing that which mattered most to him and keeping the show on the road.

Ratings and reviews

If you haven't listened to the music Gurrumul sang - be prepared to feel it reverberate through your bones. Such an important voice. Not just what he sung. But why he sung, and who he sung for, and of course how he went about it. This is about the music - it is about Gurrumul, but even though that is the focus, by it's nature this film/story cannot extricate itself from being a portrait of cultural disparity in a country overrun with ignorance. If that isn't your cup of tea, watch this film anyway.

Although informative it lacked a lot of real cinematic pieces. It would be good to watch on a plane (maybe depending on the mood) however this is not something to waste your weekend or friday evening spare time with.

Had me in tears from his opening bars...songs of life sung in an ancient tongue heal the Spirit in us all. Reflects back the emptiness of the modern world that has lost connection with the circle of life.