Rolf de Heer
- Known for
- Directing
- Born
- May 4, 1951
- Place of birth
- Heemskerk, The Netherlands
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).
Movies with Rolf de Heer
- Gulpilil: One Red Blood 2002 · ★ 6.8
- The Balanda and the Bark Canoes 2006
Movies directed by Rolf de Heer
- Bad Boy Bubby 1993 · ★ 6.9
- Alexandra's Project 2003 · ★ 5.9
- Ten Canoes 2006 · ★ 6.8
- The Tracker 2002 · ★ 6.8
- Charlie's Country 2013 · ★ 7.0
- The King Is Dead! 2012 · ★ 5.5
- Alien Visitor 1997 · ★ 5.5
- Incident at Raven's Gate 1989 · ★ 6.2
- Dr. Plonk 2007 · ★ 6.3
- Dance Me to My Song 1998 · ★ 5.9
- Dingo 1991 · ★ 5.9
- The Quiet Room 1996 · ★ 5.9
- The Survival of Kindness 2023 · ★ 7.1
- The Old Man Who Read Love Stories 2001 · ★ 6.4
- Tale of a Tiger 1984 · ★ 6.5
- Twelve Canoes 2009
- The Balanda and the Bark Canoes 2006
- The Colonel 1978
- The Audition 1979
- Thank You Jack 1986
- In the Same Garden 2016