Jonathan Zilberg, Honorary Curator
Africa Rifting. I struggle for words. Where do I begin this visual story of a long red cloth making landscape and sadness breathe.
Africa Rifting is an extraordinary work of art, an art film, which has moved me deeply each time I have watched it and I have done so many times. Each time I am affected anew in the most profound way beneath and beyond words such that I hesitate to write this. How can one do justice to a work of art as powerful as this? What is the point of writing a review? But I must, as I have asked and been given and promised. And more than that, because each time I see it I am taken back to Lok Ngah. The first time, I saw the film, was in Washington, D.C. There, in the Smithsonian’s National Museum of African Art, I sat in stunned and silent awe and felt a strange need to try and show it in Aceh one day. Georgia has given me a copy of this film and it can be seen at Tikar Pandan or Episentrum Ulee Kareng whenever you want.