Ayers Rock

For many years I had wanted to visit the Rock but I had never really had the means A little funding from Germany finally got me there I had read a lot about the history and mythology of the Rock and of the Aboriginal people but I was only too aware that I as a European could never hope to get into or feel that mythology So I decided to make a film about it from my perspective I cut out all these mythological figureslizards emus wallabiessome of them from drawings in caves on the Rock and carefully employed them as mattes for footage I shot in real time In those days hotels were very close to Ayers Rock now known as Uluru so I never had to go very far with my camera I used filters and telephoto lenses to suggest a kind of unknowable aurato show that there was truly something out there on that flat plain Paul Winkler