The Limits of What We Know

(Canada, 2008, 94 mins)

HDCam

World Premiere

PROD: Amy Bodman
CAM: Derek Rogers
ED: Sue Len Quon

The limits of what we know about ecosystems; about Zimbabwe; about specifics; about the mutual affinities of organic beings; about nature, animals and ourselves. The limits of what we know about colonialism; about our attachment to place; about white man's plots; about our ability to govern; about our interpretation of the news...

Director Amy Bodman travelled to Zimbabwe with her small crew in 1993; their intention: "to make a film about land as living entity." The marvelous footage had to wait 15 years before being woven together into The Limits of What We Know. Many questions are posed by this gentle, attentive and deceptively simple film. Chapter headings set the tone: Great Zimbabwe 1000-1600 A.D.; On Safari; The Composition of Drought; Lake Kariba; A Map of the World; The Culture of Cattle; Trees; Rain; Clay...

The limits of what we know about the voice of leopards, the hearts of giraffes; about brown rocks; about aesthetics, the iron age and the spirits of ancestors; about waiting games, lonely old animals and the function of weeds; about bigger bodies of water underneath; about the relationship between dogs and hippopotamuses, about predators and prey being at rest in each other's company; about being charged by lions; about the creation of waterholes; the communications systems of trees; the growing generation gap between elephants; about children; about leaving things be; about the essence of songs from faraway places.

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