Terra Incognita

Terra Incognita (2002)

January 1st, 20020h 10min

Documentary
58%

Overview

Terra Incognita is a lensless film whose cloudy pinhole images create a memory of history. Ancient and modern explorer texts of Easter Island are garbled together by a computer narrator, resulting in a forever repeating narrative of discovery, colonialism, loss and departure.


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