Samarkand, the Pangolin / Rina Sherman

Samarkand, the Pangolin

Rina Sherman
COVID-19 Micro Ethnographies Documentary Educational Resources
HD, couleurs, 1 min 30s, 2020
« Samarkand » is a short excerpt from a longer slow cinema piece, referencing a cine-portrait of astrophysicist Jacques Blamont. In it, he evokes the ancient tale of « the meeting in Samarkand » as a metaphor for the inevitability of death, subtly predicting the COVID-19 crisis. The work reflects on the loss of carefreeness and the global impact of the pandemic’s political handling.


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Samarkand, the Pangolin / Rina Sherman

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The name Samarkand, in the short form of a longer slow cinema piece, refers to my cine-portrait of the late Jacques Blamont (2020), in which the astrophysicist predicts the era of COVID-19 by alluding to ‘the meeting in Samarkand’, an age-old oriental tale of the inevitable meeting with death. Other than the shock of the betrayal and barefaced lying of our leaders worldwide – who, in the name of greed, through the wilful organization of chaos, forced us into effective house arrest on March 17 2020 and are now driving us back outside to face a said-to-be still present contagious virus – what affected me most is the loss of being carefree, a part of our lives lost forever.

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Rina Sherman

2020

COVID-19 Micro Ethnographies

1min30

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ZONE 2 : Japon, Europe, Afrique du Sud, Égypte et Moyen-Orient, ZONE 1 : États-Unis, territoires américains, Canada et Bermudes
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