Tuesday, June 9, 2009
Uncategorized Kepulihan documents tsunami recovery
Posted by Curt Holman @Curt_Holman on Tue, Jun 9, 2009 at 5:00 PM
A haiku-like simplicity defines the most powerful eyewitness testimony of Kepulihan: Stories from the Tsunami. Screening Sat., June 13, as part of the D.R.E.A.M. series at the Martin Luther King Jr. Historic Site, the film chronicles the first-hand experience of four Indonesian survivors of the 2004 tsunami. The natural disaster claimed more than 230,000 lives in eight Asian countries. One survivor describes the destruction of his home: “The ocean water was black and had already entered the house … For days, this area was covered with corpses.”
Kepulihan’s early scenes make an enormous impact through footage of the floodwaters and wrecked villages. Primarily, filmmaker David Barnhart of Presbyterian Disaster Assistance devotes the film to the recovery effort of four Indonesians trying to reconstruct their lives: Mahmud, a painter; Damai, a young woman injured by a collapsing wall; Rahman, a pedicab driver; and Yadi, a young farmer. From 2005-2008, the camera crew checked in with each survivor once a year to track their progress. Over the course of the film, Yadi marries, has a child and participates in a farming cooperative that grows from two to 43 families. Damai, rendered paraplegic by a collapsed wall, goes from complete dependence on her mother to working an assistant manager job at a rehabilitation center.
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(Photo by David Barnhart)
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