Images Re-Vues (Apr 2015)
Le vestige et la ruine dans Few of us (1996) de Sharunas Bartas : les ornements sonores de l’oubli d’un peuple disparaissant
Abstract
How represent, without comment or dialogue, oblivion of a people? In Few of us, a Lithuanian film fiction, Sharunas Bartas stages some members of the Tofalars community, living in Siberia. This people consists of about seven hundred people, formerly nomadic, now sedentary, forgotten by the world and perhaps partly oblivious to its own culture, forgetful to its own history. The film is primarily characterized by an unusual writing that highlights the silence and the mutism of the characters. However, the ancestral sounds and songs of the Tofalars cross the empty soundscape: these very simple shapes suggest the life of the people who still live there. These sounds are the rags and the footsteps of the story of a disappearing people.
