Rolf de Heer

Biography

Rolf de Heer (born 4 May 1951; Heemskerk, North Holland) is a Australian film director. De Heer was born in Heemskerk in the Netherlands but migrated to Sydney when he was eight years old. He attended the Australian Film, Television and Radio School in Sydney. His company is called Vertigo Productions and is based in Adelaide. De Heer primarily makes alternative or arthouse films. According to the jacket notes of the videotape, de Heer holds the honor of co-producing and directing the only motion picture, Dingo, in which the jazz legend Miles Davis appears as an actor. Miles Davis collaborated with Michel Legrand on the score. He is the subject of the book Dutch Tilt, Aussie Auteur: The Films of Rolf de Heer (First edition – Saarbrücken, Germany: VDM, 2009. Second edition – Ebook: Starrs via Smashwords.com, 2013) by Dr D. Bruno Starrs. A comprehensive study of his films to date, Dancing to His Song: the Singular Cinema of Rolf de Heer by film critic Jane Freebury, is published in ebook and print (Currency Press & Currency House, 2015).

Directed

1. Bad Boy Bubby (1993) — Director
2. Alexandra's Project (2003) — Director
3. Ten Canoes (2006) — Director
4. The Tracker (2002) — Director
5. Charlie's Country (2013) — Director
6. The King Is Dead! (2012) — Director
7. Alien Visitor (1997) — Director
8. Dr. Plonk (2007) — Director
9. Incident at Raven's Gate (1989) — Director
10. Dance Me to My Song (1998) — Director
11. Dingo (1991) — Director
12. The Quiet Room (1996) — Director
13. The Survival of Kindness (2023) — Director
14. The Old Man Who Read Love Stories (2001) — Director
15. Tale of a Tiger (1984) — Director
16. Twelve Canoes (2009) — Director
17. The Balanda and the Bark Canoes (2006) — Director
18. The Colonel (1978) — Director
19. Thank You Jack (1986) — Director
20. The Audition (1979) — Director
21. In the Same Garden (2016) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Gulpilil: One Red Blood (2002) — Self
2. The Balanda and the Bark Canoes (2006) — Self - Narrator