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ARMEA

Rotuma 2024

WATER PEOPLES

SiidaFri 24/0116:0010€
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Steeped in symbolism and no larger than a child’s hand, the diminutive bird known as the Armea is found in only one place on Earth: the Pacific island of Rotuma. Through music and dance, Rotuman artists work with their elders to create new ceremonies and to revitalize stories of land and ocean.

Director Letila Mitchell (rotuman)
Rating G
Running time 20 min
Language Rotuman, English
Subtitles English
Year 2024
Country Rotuma
Director

Letila Mitchell

Letila Mitchell is a practicing artist, director, producer, founder and artistic director of Rako Pasefika, a multidisciplinary collective of Indigenous Oceanic storytellers whose creative practice has its foundation in Rotuman culture and its links to Indigenous Oceanic communities. Letila’s work explores Rotuman creative practice in the context of Indigenous Oceanic knowledge with the goal of ...

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