Tellurian Drama (2020) + Amussu (2019) + Intro - Whose Land? Whose Lens?

Tellurian Drama is a short film by Riar Rizaldi, exploring colonial history, indigenous ancestral
power, and geoengineering through the story of Radio Malabar in West Java, Indonesia.


Amussu is a documentary film set in Imider, a small Amazigh community in southeastern
Morocco, directed and written by Nadir Bouhmouch. In 2011, the community shut down a major
water pipeline to halt the impact of Africa’s largest silver mine. The film chronicles the villagers’
eight-year peaceful resistance as they transform their protest camp into a small solar-powered
village, continuing to resist through songs, poetry, theatre, weekly assemblies, and a local film
festival.


This screening is curated and introduced by Meliza George as part of ‘Whose Land? Whose
Lens?’ a season of works from the global south discussing the protection of land and therefore
peoples through the lens of slow cinema. The season is presented with the National Film and
Television’s Film Studies, Curation and Programming MA.