‘Eami’ Review: Rotterdam-Winning Doc is Choral Poem of a Film
” means forest and world. Such twinned meaning speaks to the way this indigenous community understands the environment around them. The forest is their world. Or was. For now, the Paraguayan Chaco where the Ayoreo Totobiegosode live is the territory with the highest deforestation rate in the world.
Encina wants us rooted firmly on this spot, even as the lighting and color grading keep modifying the tone and tenor of the shot. Gray greens give way to saturated yellows that in turn then dim away into darkness before an unnatural red-orange hue washes over this most unassuming of natural scenes. There’s comfort, then danger; nature at peace and then nature in threat. One image alone takes us on a complete journey.
Overlaid on those eggs, for instance, is the history of Ayoreo. The voice is that of “Asojá,” who regales us with the cosmology that first begat the Ayoreo people: how wind gave way to breath which gave way to song. It’s from that song that inhabitants of nature first came to be. Asojá, who was a bird yet who describes herself as having the shape of a woman, emerged then as well and begat the world.
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