Tana BruTana Bru is a Finmark locality considered sacred by the local community. Bru means bridge and represents the ideal link between ancestral and modern identity.
After the colonization, the indigenous peoples found themselves foreigners in their own lands and their identity is still endangered by globalization and cultural capitalism. Despite the breadth of the topic the project focused on the Sami people living in the arctic regions of Scandinavia, scene of meeting and resistance of different ethnic groups. The young indigenous generations feel the weight of a responsibility as they are the only heirs of a precious civilization that they want to safeguard; However, the contact with modernity often makes this battle difficult and contradictory. In this precarious universe, the Sami move without leaving a trace in total symbiosis with the Nature, “Luondu”in Sami referring to both the spiritual and the physical ideal. The idea of cultural reconstruction is combined with the environmental one too, fighting the tendency to destruction of the burning consumerism and the dumbing down of tourism industry. In this humble tale of simple realities, the anthropological will is evident but without the presumption of judging or investigating. The work is a visual documentary that prefers intimate spaces and everyday life to heroes and journalistic scandals. |