Yurugu – Invisible Lines

Rooted in the wisdom of ancestral ecology, the experimental essay film journeys through the fractured terrain left by the colonial dismemberment of inter-being relations – between cultures, between humans and non-humans, between the visible and the unseen. The Berlin Conference of 1885, a spectral wound in our shared memory, marks one of the sharpest incisions in this long dislocation. Yurugu – Invisible Lines evokes the gift of re-membering what was dismembered by the colonial project. Through dreamscapes, ritualised practices of sharing and ancestral rhythms, it renders visible the invisible lines that once held communities and ecosystems in sacred balance. Disorienting the colonial gaze, the film offers a multiplicity of textures and temporalities as a process of healing – inviting a recoding of aesthetics and storytelling rooted in cosmologies of care, reciprocity and continuity.