The Islanders

(1996) video 20 minutes.

A community of people are taken from their homeland to an island where they lose all memory of the past and must reinvent their lives, language and culture. Their only means of escape from the island is through learning boatbuilding and swimming, both of which are outlawed by the new government. The video is based on a Sufi fable and was shot in the Anza Borrego and Joshua Tree deserts.