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The carefully controlled frames ofThis Is Not a Burial, Its a Resurrectionhave an unsettling permanence to them.
Usually, the camera is fixed, its gaze unflinching.
Her hands at times also look like they might even be cradling an imaginary child.
There is both practical and spiritual urgency to her quest.
Death and life are inextricably intertwined here.
(The earth doesnt just contain bones, were told; it also contains umbilical cords and placenta.)
Mantoas actions in turn spur the rest of the village to action.
Thus, at the edge of extinction, the people of the Plains of Weeping (a.k.a.
Nasaretha) experience a kind of resurrection.
Black-clad and implacable, shes filmed almost like an avenging angel.
That we as a planet have ourselves suffered through unimaginable loss adds a further, unexpected resonance.
For so many, the question Where would you like to die?
