Heart of Light – eleven songs for Fiji is an accumulation of ‘divine small things’ in everyday Fijian life and landscapes, which create in us an understanding of something greater.
By fusing intimacy and collective history, fiction and documentary, social realities and poetic inspiration Heart of Light confronts Iona (Tilda Swinton) during the months of her return after a long absence to the islands of Fiji, where memories, an ancient culture, landscapes and encounters intertwine. For Iona, who feels herself both deeply attached to the islands and yet ‘an outsider’, it's an introspective and sensory journey of exploration, in a world whose culture is both close and distant. It's also an opportunity to question the identity of an Oceanian territory and the relationship to its ancestral land in its own post-colonial era. In this way the film challenges European notions of "post-colonialism" as an exterior, historical event.
Heart of Light – eleven songs for Fiji opens up and reveals the unpredictable spirit, the Art of the Real.
