Burning of the Gods (2022)
7m
Running Time
July 30, 2022Release Date
Plot.
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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Cast & Crew.

Te Marama Rio
Tama

Terepoto Williams
Papa

Anna Rasmussen
Mama Enua

Karin Williams
Director

Sharlene George
Producer

Ani O'Neill
Costume Designer

Fred Renata
Cinematography / Editor
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This Movie Is About.
new zealand
cook islands
aotearoa