The Eternal Return

The Eternal Return explores the phenomenon of how a performer of colour such as international actor Sabu might be treated and thought of in a way analogous to the animals with whom he appears. In Sabu’s case this was the conflation of his background as mahout son’s with his career as actor that imposed a seemingly inescapable relationship with elephants: the animals recur throughout his filmography . It also highlights how, in spite of his extraordinary fame Sabu was always the sidekick and never the love interest. With the use of a combination of live-action dramatised recreation and British Pathé stock footage re-edited and altered with VFX, The Eternal Return revisits the now-struggling Sabu in 1951 as he supports his family by performing – once more with a troupe of elephants – in Tom Arnold’s Christmas Circus in Haringey Arena.

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The Eternal Return regisserades av Michelle Williams Gamaker.

Med en speltid på 0 timmar och 20 minuter är The Eternal Return en produktion från United Kingdom. Originalspråket är engelska. På Filmotek uppdaterar vi löpande var du kan streama, hyra eller köpa The Eternal Return i Sverige.