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The return of three Anglicizied natives people to their county or the beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
Darwin's Notebook
2020 ‘Le journal de Darwin’ Directed by Georges Schwizgebel
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Darwin's Notizbuch
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Switzerland
24. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
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06 Nov 2020
- Premiere 24. Internationale Kurzfilmtage Winterthur
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The return of three Anglicized natives to their homeland. The beginning of a meeting with the modern world that will destroy them.
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Reflective Encounters 2021
Charles Darwin’s work gave us a greater awareness of the natural world and our place in it, yet the influence of his ideas haven't always been benign. Social Darwinism and eugenics have found justification in his ideas, regardless of the distortions necessary to make them. Through a story about Darwin’s chance encounter with three Indigenous people who were kidnapped from their home in Tierra del Fuego at the southern tip of South America and sent to Europe, Darwin’s Notebook implicitly interrogates Darwin’s place within Western culture.
This short is made up of stories within stories to convey a sense of shared culture. Speech bubbles from the Indigenous peoples become windows through which Darwin, and the audience, witness…
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Are we sure this is the right moment to tell this kind of story from this perspective?
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That montage of their story was done well
Fuck colonialism all my homies hate colonizers