Into the Inferno
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- 2016
- 104 min
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We are here in the
Vanuatu Archipelago,
a cluster of volcanic
islands in the Pacific,
about 1,000 miles east
of northern Australia.
Below, the village of Endu
on the island of Ambrym.
A year ago, most of it was destroyed
by a tropical storm
of phenomenal force.
But the village also has to endure
to the periodic fallout
of volcanic eruptions.
Punctuated by catastrophes,
time does not seem to have found a grip
on the community.
We met Chief Mael Moses,
here with members of his large family.
This is Clive Oppenheimer,
a volcanologist
from Cambridge University,
who brought us to this place.
Chief Mael Moses, you're the head
of this beautiful village of Endu,
just a few kilometers
from the volcano crater.
You visited the crater
and looked yourself into the inferno,
- into the raging fire.
- Yeah.
How did you feel when you went there?
Uh...
I felt very frightened
to look at the fire.
Secondly...
I feel that I was not in
the island of Ambrym.
I thought I was
somewhere else.
And, uh... the other thing,
I feel that...
how powerful that fire is.
Do spirits live in the fire?
That's how we believe,
that spirits are in the fire.
The fire is burning
through that spirit.
We believe that the fire
is burning through that spirit.
I read that there was a big eruption
in 1968,
and that there were rituals performed
to stop the eruption.
And then tourists were not allowed
to visit the crater
because it was seen that somehow
the tourists had started the eruption.
Is that...?
Well, we believe that
because we thought that the spirits
that are in the volcano...
if they look at you,
they don't know who is this. Okay?
But if they look at one of us,
they know that, uh,
because we are more or less
related to the volcano,
then they will just be quiet.
Sometimes we say that tourists
won't go up there. Okay?
Because you are foreigners
to that spirit, the volcano.
I saw people in that fire.
People and women and men.
They're cooking their food in there.
So, it makes me believe
that there is somebody who is...
their spirits are there.
The molten rock,
is that part of the spirit?
The lava expresses
the anger of the devil
who are living in that fire, volcano.
Do the ancestors, then,
live under the volcano?
Yes, we believe that anybody who dies here
goes to the volcano,
and that volcano has become their village,
where you can talk to them
and they can talk to us.
- Can you talk to the volcano?
- I'm not, because, you know,
I'm not related to the volcano.
But one of my brothers is.
He was talking to the volcano.
His father... His father,
when he goes up to the volcano,
and if he wants to smoke,
he just calls out
and the fire will come down,
and take the fire
and light his cigarette or pipe
or something like that.
And if you brother talks to the volcano,
is he allowed to tell you
what the volcano has said,
- or is it just a secret?
- No, it's a secret for him. Yes.
- Do you try and get the secret out of him?
- I've got some.
But Chief Mael Moses is worried
about the loss of their ancient culture.
to a ritual site in the jungle.
Once upon a time,
our people were cannibal.
They see somebody,
and they would like to attack him
and kill him
so that they use it for meat.
And this how they demonstrate it.
Many people here
have lost the dance.
They have lost the idea of dancing.
Yes.
The custom dance
that you're going to see this afternoon,
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