Until lions have their own historians...
January 8, 2022 10:33 AM Subscribe
Documentarian Georgina Savage returns to her native South Africa to document her family’s fight against rhinoceros poachers in Kruger National Park, but as she gets more immersed in the lives of those involved, she must confront the colonial past of her country and its implications on a conflict close to home. Follow her tracks in eight long, profoundly researched and beautifully written and reported podcast episodes: The Invisible Hand.
Featured on Bello Collective's best of 2021 list, reviews here and here. Co-created for Casefile with Sophie Seyd.
1. "Where you stand depends on where you sit"
2. "People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them"
3. "The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house"
4. "Wilderness is the preservation of the world"
5. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
6. Reality cannot be deprived of the "other echoes that inhabit the garden"
7. "I am not the we of anyone"
8. "A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk"
Featured on Bello Collective's best of 2021 list, reviews here and here. Co-created for Casefile with Sophie Seyd.
1. "Where you stand depends on where you sit"
2. "People are trapped in history, and history is trapped in them"
3. "The master’s tools will never dismantle the master’s house"
4. "Wilderness is the preservation of the world"
5. "All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others
6. Reality cannot be deprived of the "other echoes that inhabit the garden"
7. "I am not the we of anyone"
8. "A child cannot pay for its mother’s milk"
Savage’s story ends (for now, here’s hoping they do manage to continue the report in Vietnam, as planned..) with a reflection regarding the politics of documentary storytelling, via Bill Nichols’ Speaking Truths with Film. Laying its ethical quandaries bare is a powerful ingredient in this work’s mix.
Compare and contrast, for example, with another recent, also consummately produced and narrated nature conservancy podcast, Guardians of the River. Very engaging storytelling there, too, but definitely a different vibe, a different politics.
posted by progosk at 11:44 PM on January 8, 2022
Compare and contrast, for example, with another recent, also consummately produced and narrated nature conservancy podcast, Guardians of the River. Very engaging storytelling there, too, but definitely a different vibe, a different politics.
posted by progosk at 11:44 PM on January 8, 2022
The Rhino suffers not only from Chinese medicine. It also suffers Hollywood syndrome. Portrayed as FEARSOME beasts that will attack a jeep!!!
In real life, Rhinos are quite laid-back. They are cows, with their horns misplaced. Pleasant beasts who don't mind at all being looked at, fairly close. Happily accepting the ministrations of birds who clean parasites from their ears! Gentle herbivores.
The dangerous ones are the hippos. Oops!
(from personal experience in South Africa)
posted by Goofyy at 2:46 PM on January 9, 2022
In real life, Rhinos are quite laid-back. They are cows, with their horns misplaced. Pleasant beasts who don't mind at all being looked at, fairly close. Happily accepting the ministrations of birds who clean parasites from their ears! Gentle herbivores.
The dangerous ones are the hippos. Oops!
(from personal experience in South Africa)
posted by Goofyy at 2:46 PM on January 9, 2022
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