Let Us Persevere In What We Have Resolved Before We Forget
Ben Russell
2013 | 00:19:57 | France | English | Color | Stereo | 16:9 | 16mm film
Collection: Single Titles
Tags: Documentary, Documentation, Experimental Film, Indigenous, Nature
"We are happy. (Silence.) What do we do now, now that we are happy?"
-- Samuel Beckett, Waiting for Godot
"John Frum prophesied the occurrence of a cataclysm in which Tanna would become flat, the volcanic mountains would fall and fill the river-beds to form fertile plains, and Tanna would be joined to the neighbouring islands of Eromanga and Aneityum to form a new island. Then John Frum would reveal himself, bringing in a reign of bliss, the natives would get back their youth and there would be no sickness; there would be no need to care for gardens, trees or pigs. The Whites would go; John Frum would set up schools to replace mission schools, and would pay chiefs and teachers."
-- Peter Worsley, The Trumpet Shall Sound: a study of cargo cults in Melanesia
In English and Whitesands with English sub-titles.
This title is the first in a trilogy by Ben Russell which also includes the works Atlantis (2014) and Greetings to The Ancestors (2015).
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