Terra Incognita

Name: Terra Incognita
Director: Ben Russell
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2002-01-01
Duration: 10 min
Rating: 5.8

200210m

★ 5.8

Documentary

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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