Pumzi

Pumzi is a short film made in Africa. It devolves around a world that has no water left. The film is tied heavily to a real-world problem of droughts in Africa. In the film, a young scientist working at a museum discovers the possibility of there being fertile soil left in the world. The film seemed to turn against real world hierarchies. The leaders of the community were all women and the only white figure in the movie was the janitor and bathroom cleaner. The main character appears as a maternal figure to a bud that she carries out into the desert. The whole ending is very sexual in the fact that she literally waters the seed from her own body sweat and then nurtures it into a tree. The film leaves many questions unanswered but I feel this is due to the short budget in the movie. Overall, I found the idea creative and a new take on a waterless future.