Burning of the Gods

Burning of the Gods (2022)

With his island at risk from industrial tourism and environmental degradation, a boy travels back in time to reconnect with his ancestors.

  • Genre: Drama
  • Release Date: 2022-07-30
  • Runtime: 0h 7min
  • Language: English
  • Production Company: Multinesia Productions
  • Director:

Summary

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.

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Directing Karin Williams Director
Production Sharlene George Producer
Crew Fred Renata Cinematography
Costume & Make-Up Ani O'Neill Costume Designer
Editing Fred Renata Editor