CafeSentido.com :: “One person alone cannot push an elephant.” The proverb tells us a great deal about how this film explores the crisis in human connection that comes with conflict. How pervasive, how multifaceted, how horrifying, to find that all sense of community has unraveled in the worst assaults and intensities of a save-no-soul total war. But from there, from the aftermath of this horror, even in the midst of it, Rose Mapendo would tell us we can plant the seeds of something better, nobler, more generous.
Pushing the Elephant, an Arts Engine film, explores loss, and the unique ways it comes to people whose world is dissolved in the chaos of conflict. It is also, however, an exploration of the complex journey that comes with having actively sought to plant those seeds, to be better, to be more generous and to shape a more humane future.
