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Burning of the Gods

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Drama

2022-07-30

7 mins

The Plot

An airplane lands. A massive cruise boat anchors off the reef, disgorging tourists for tropical island vacations. This postcard paradise depends on petroleum imports to fuel its cars, motorbikes, boats, hotels, pumps and machinery. Yet if the tourists stopped coming, what then? The film opens with the prophetic words of Niuean artist John Pule and continues as a visual tone poem, without dialogue or narration, moving forward into the past to ask questions about the future. A young man travels back in time, from luxury resorts and lagoon tours through pandemic and population exodus, to early Christianity when missionaries incinerated his island’s atua and marae. Finally he reconnects with his tīpuna who settled the island a thousand years ago.

Cast and Crew

Te Marama Rio

Te Marama Rio

Tama

Terepoto Williams

Terepoto Williams

Papa

Anna Rasmussen

Anna Rasmussen

Mama Enua

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