The Creation As We Saw It

Ben Rivers

IndieLisboa 2013 • Observatório

Reino Unido, Documentary, 2012, 14′

There is an anthropological side in all the works by Rivers. Like in a book divided by chapters, we discover in this film three mythological stories of Vanuatu, an island in Southern Pacific. Nature gives in return what it exposes. (M. V.)

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