THEY ARE NOT YET GROWN

THEY ARE NOT YET GROWN

Guyana | 2020 | 20 MINS

During the rainy season rivers flood, an infant is bathed by repetitive splashing, and cassava is harvested from forest farms. Carried to houses, it is transformed; cyanide is extracted from its tuberous roots which are reformed into staple foods. Attending to these mundane scenes privileges the sensuous knowledge of women’s intimate and daily lives. Bodies, artefacts, and substances act as devices that transform substances across scale, and are too continuously transformed – in a network of relational interdependence.

directed by CHARLOTTE HOSKINS
Charlotte Hoskins is a filmmaker and anthropologist from Virginia. She has studied visual anthropology at the University of Manchester’s Granada Centre and is currently a doctoral candidate in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, St Peter’s College, Oxford. Her audiovisual work and written texts have placed themselves within the North Rupununi region of Guyana and her Makushi relations.