Archipelago of Earthen Bones — To Bunya (Experimental)
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Director: Malena Szlam
Producer: John Edmond
Cinematographer: Malena Szlam
Composer: Lawrence English
Editor: Malena Szlam
Luminous images and hypnotic sounds from the Gondwana rainforest metamorphose into a landscape of ancient secrets and dazzling dreams.
Following her sensory portraits of the Andes (Altiplano, MIFF 2019) and Indonesia’s Mount Merapi (2021’s Merapi), Chilean filmmaker Malena Szlam turns her lyrical lens on eastern Australia for this shimmering shrine to the natural landscape, using 16mm in-camera editing, spectral superimpositions and the earth-shaking sound work of Australian artist Lawrence English to evoke evolution, geological formation and the shifting of tectonic plates.