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TE WAI POUNAMU

New Zealand / 2011 / 32 min / Digital

Director : Colette Culbert

"Te Wai Pounamu" (The waters of pounamu), the South island of New Zealand, is shown here as a journey across the land, following the pounamu the sources, the rivers and the coastlines. The pounamu is in constant motion, born from the faultline, the main divide, carried by the glaciers, the rivers and the lakes to the sea over hundreds and thousands of years.. Each ancestral recital and waiata are an integral part of Maori history. This history carries Maori identity, solidarity and the continuity between generations and it documents the journeys and events that shape the environment of Te Wai Pounamu. A direct magic relationship is evoked between this and the force of the land, the sea, the rivers and the precious pounamu.

 

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