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Matri Linear B: Surfacing Earth ()

Directed by Angela Melitopoulos

Documentary · 1h 15m

Matri Linear B takes the expressive powers of the Earth’s surface as “speaking landscapes” as its starting point, as agencies of a statement, while exploring how we can learn to see them. Central for the project’s second part, Surfacing Earth, are the cosmologies and land rights politics of indigenous Australians in Yuendumu and Tijikala in the Northern Territories. They appear as a horizon and boundary in a transmitted cosmology that is over 40,000 years old. They require a way of thinking about the relativity of space, which, according to astrophysicist Arturo Escobar, “is not to be thought about with universal concepts, but with several universes at the same time that can be interconnected…”

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Crew

Director
Angela Melitopoulos

Details

Runtime
1h 15m
Genres
Documentary
Original language
EN
Spoken languages
English
Countries
Australia, Austria