|
FILM, DANCE & THEATRE
|
|
'MEMOIRS OF A PLAGUE'
Feature length (77mins) Australian Documentary funded by Screen Australia, Screen NSW, Screen ACT and National Geographic. Produced by Mitzi Goldman & |
![]() Director & Co-Producer Robert Nugent |
|
JOIN Friends List show your support & receive music news, updates and specials on performances, tours and recordings. |
Kristin Rule, alias 'The Unconventional Cellist'
info@theunconventionalcellist.com
PO Box 43, Clunes VIC, AUSTRALIA 3370
+61 422 783 980



Memoirs of a Plague's opening sequence harks of end of days, but it soon becomes apparent that filmmaker Robert Nugent's relationship - and indeed humankind's relationship - with locusts is a great deal more complicated. Nugent almost serenades the insects with sweepingly cinematic, orchestral montages, presenting a creature that can fascinate and repulse in equal measure. Biblical tropes of the harvest and the rains are updated and experienced anew in two countries worlds apart, Australia and Ethiopia. Farmers and their communities in both locations are battling with the locusts, praying to science to support the fight. But like a swarm of locusts across the sun, the outcome is anything but clear.
SCREENINGS @
• Hot Docs Canada 2011
• IDFA International Documentary Film Festival, Amsterdam, 2010
• Opening Film at the
Antenna Documentary Film Festival, Sydney, 5th of October 2011
• Canberra International Film Festival, October 2011
• Margaret Mead Film Festival, New York, November 2011
• Idocs, Beijing, December 2011