The interconnectivity of experience, Lemohang Jeremiah Mosese's This is Not A Burial, It's a Resurrection is a rejection of the false dichotomy between the communal and individual, offering up a profound and incisive portrait of resilience and resistance that assuredly recognizes the confluent relationship between the spiritual and material nature as it relates to the conception of community. Set at the edge of encroaching modernity, This is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection utilizes a story of individual loss to great effect, illustrating how the spark that ignites communal action doesn't often come from collective catharsis but through ontological actualization. The individual and the collective are intertwined, reciprocating forces, and through the manifestation of the internal experience outward, the abstract nature of community is actualized and emboldened around mutual desire and shared traditions. The film's stunning denouement explicitly reveals this idea, our principal protagonist effectively becoming a martyr due to her unwavering conviction, one that is informed by both personal and communal experience. Moses's directorial precision is something to behold, constructing a rapturously effective aesthetic that manages to evoke the intimacy and personal trauma of its central protagonist while simultaneously eliciting the grandiose ubiquity of the elemental and its analogous relationship with humanity. This is Not A Burial, It's A Resurrection is a story of community and tradition and its subjugation and subservience to the forces of capital, yet through its deeply personal story of trauma, the film creates one of the more interesting studies of the relationship between individuals and the collective I've seen in some time, illustrating how collective consciousness is often ignited by individual fortitude. A visually stunning work that I'm so sad I didn't get to see in a theater.
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