music as the settler/melancholy
poetry of collisions, though fatal
bookending colonialism
drifter enters the body of colonialism
a first nation citizen drifts across an ocean
an un-owned land is siezed, occupied, parcelled and sold
in the end her land was her grave
THAT too was violated
foreign bodies as virus to the nation
experimental techniques applied to the telling of histories gives the film full power of poetry
ALL FALL DOWN
there was one shot close to the ground , across a frozen body of water, a barrel enters the frame and is emptied of hot water that flows over the frozen surface towards the sun, as if to extinguish it.
the sadness of lives stolen would have that the sun had never shined.
in another part the hand processed film was pushed to such a contrast that the body seemed burned into the grass with light.
How to talk of a revelation, of a film? what is a film?
I do not want to speak of film but what it does.
this document traces the effects of a long gone genocide, and now the buildings crumble
