TERRA MATER - MOTHERLAND
Genre
Narrative
Running time
10 minutes
Year
2021
Language
English and Swahili
Subtitle
English and French
Country
Rwanda and Switzerland
Director
Kantarama Gahigiri
Bio
Producer
Kantarama Gahigiri
Cast
Cheryl Isheja
Scriptwriter
Kantarama Gahigiri
Centered largely on a vast landfill dump, this film combines sobering documentary, hypnotic beats, Afrofuturist aesthetics, dramatic tableaux and a message for the world about the African environment. First, the continent was exploited for its resources. Now it gets them back as waste, that piles up and is scavenged once more for trace metals by the very poor. Waste from these dumps leaches through the land, our systems, our bones. A goddess made up of tech junk walks the mountains of plastics and poisons, asking when will the swollen capitalist economies, constantly on the hunt for rare metals to make smarter appliances, take responsibility for the consequences? And when will there be time to heal?
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