Há terra!

Há terra!

Production country: 
fr
Year: 
2016
Duration: 
13'
Edition: 
2017
Format: 
film/video

In Há Terra!, Ana Vaz stages a hunt and subverts ethnographic tendencies in order to exhume a history of survival and political resistance in Brazil's sertão region—a history that persists in local land claims today. "Darting camera movements appear to chase a young maroon girl through the high grass. The present-tense voice-over seems to fuse with the past in the myopia of the long focus lens. The recurrent sound loop of a man shouting "Land! Land!" conjures up the distant memory of colonialism. But the beauty of this collage rests on the impossibility for the spectator to let this past "pass": soon the current testimony involves a mayor who has taken over by threat the lands of the indigenous people. The young girl being hunted comes to personify a territory." (Charlotte Garson)

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