Sol de campinas

Rinland observes the work of archaeologists on a dig in an area of Brazil known as State of Acre. They are carefully chipping earth away, trying to find ceramic shards and other artifacts from an indigenous people who occupied the land 1000+ years ago. Once physical remains are removed from the field, cleaned, analyzed, and classified by the museum’s taxonomic systems, those artifacts become very different objects of knowledge. And as Rinland shows, this process is never more fraught than when those cultures have been erased by the same power structures that birthed the human sciences in the first place. (Michael Sicinski)

This film will be shown as part of the screening SHORT FILM PROGRAMME 2: RECONFIGURING THE EARTH.