PARADISE IS ELSEWHERE
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AN OLD MAN TELLS THE STORY OF HIS ANCESTORS:
In a time, unimaginable far, men and women from the Unarusclan went one day into their gardens to harvest fruits and vegetables. A man discovered a huge spider net down the canyon. The people from the Unarusclan threw the skin of the fruits into the net. They realised that this net was of an enormous strength, because it did not break. The Chief of the group said: "This net must be something very special. One of us could jump down the canyon and will be saved by that spider net." With these words all of them became curious and believed in a big discovery. They forced the man to jump.

So the Chief jumped on and the net broke. Crying full of pain he was lying on the sand. But the people on the top of the mountain thought he was shouting because of joy. So all of the Unarus - except two women and a boy - jumped into the net.

In the moment death appeared, all their bodies, their pigs and the fruits transformed into heavy stones.The time of the ancestors ended that way and a new time began.

PARADISE IS ELSEWHERE
Documentary, 50min
filmed in Papua New Guinea.
Director: Diego Donnhofer
Production: Lotusfilm
Broadcasted in Austria, 1997