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in/out Video Duration 52 minutes Gigi Scaria Trinidad's ethnic mix and cultural diversity is a unique experience for me. Largely people had been brought here by their "colonial masters" from four continents. What fascinated me is the way people understand this land as their motherland even though not long ago they were separated from their motherlands in Asia, Africa, Mideast and Europe. |
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It seems like they have always ignored the 'past' and started living in the 'present'. They somehow abandoned the 'burden of history" which their ancestors carried from their motherlands and became actively involved in shaping a nation which creates its own history. This reminds me of the village "Macondo" described by Gabriel Garcia Marcase in his famous novel 'One Hundred Years of Solitude". Everything is new, fresh and in the process of creating something unique. |  |
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My intervention in this society is an attempt to understand many issues layered under the nation building project. The past, present and the complexity of "living together" somehow helped me to observe this nation as a "microcosm" of the world. The sense of identity and the understanding of 'belonging" have been constructed in human minds through ' active subconscious' impulses. Through a series of interviews with people from different racial and religious background my attempt here is to get a glimpse of these impulses. |  |
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