Exhumation (Dirt: Part Four) (avec sous-titres français)

Exhumation is an extended poetic meditation on our relation to the soil, and the energies buried within it. Centuries of history, of conquering and re-conquering, lie beneath our feet, and the return of the vanquished is inevitable. There has also always been an alternative possibility, within the American landscape, of a more peaceful relationship with the soil, the resting place of our ancestors.

A collage of poetic imagery, music, and invocatory language, the film follows two men in a series of esoteric experiments. Their words take us to unexpected landscapes, deep under the earth’s surface, floating along a jungle river, and to a mountain peak crowned with an electric guitar. A postmodern video opera, Exhumation bathes the viewer in music, language, and visual spectacle.