ARCHIVES: Completed during the depths of the pandemic, Gaia is South Africa’s first fully realised eco-horror film, a chilling, contemplative fantasy operating on many levels.
), naïve strangers in a world that is not entirely their own. They putter into the film following a water channel in the middle of a dense jungle. The precise location is never revealed, but there is a fierce sense of disconnection from the civilised world. It’s majestic, but also dimly lit, deeply threatening and seemingly alive.
It delivers all the hellish moments and techniques that horror fans adore: visceral body horror, jumpy stalking scenes and nifty cinematography that simultaneously disorientates you while making you feel that something frightening is almost always about to attack. But it also gives you plenty more. But, even more breathtakingly, that contagion is spread through the air, and – talk about hitting the current zeitgeist squarely between the eyes – you ideally need a mask to prevent yourself from contracting it. If you do get it, you will beg to be killed later.
Ultimately it’s an ecological revenge movie. It is a parable, a kind of fable from the depths of our storytelling tradition: We are destroying Mother Earth and in doing so sacrificing our own children.
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