Tenere - Mapping the Desert

 A film by Edward Owles (25 mins, Libya, 2011) 

An Italian explorer and a Tuareg guide reflect on the rock art of the Libyan Sahara and their own relationship to the landscape. To what extent can western science 'capture' the natural environment as a scientific domain, and what does this mean for the people who live there?

Selected Festival Screenings 2011-2014
Royal Anthropological Institute Film Festival, UK
Moscow Ethnographic Film Festival, Russia
Athens Ethnographic Film Festival, Greece
MAIA International Film Festival of Archaeology, Sao Paolo
Intimate Lens Film Festival, Italy
Ethnocineca, Austria
Kratovo Ethnographic Film Festival, Macedonia

Cast & Credits
Director / Camera / Editor: Edward Owles
Production Manager: Victoria Waldock
Still Photography: Ed Owles & Hembo Pagi

Featuring Pierpaolo & Wizda