Pacific Blackbox

... is the name of a forum that'll take place in Buka Island, northern Bougainville Island, between the 1st and the 15th of April 2008.

35 to 40 youth will train in video-making so they can use that powerful medium to voice their point of view and immediately testify for themselves about their condition, namely the progressive disappearance of their island under an ever-rising sea, the emotional consequence on themselves and their community, and all the reflexion they want to bring on a such a matter as global warming, their present, their future.

I am going to provide them with technical training, so they can shoot, edit and publish their movies; i also am going to record this process from a to z, from alpha to omega, so it becomes part of an extended community's memory. Coz we're all concerned, whether or not we're aware. We, as humans on this planet of a space.

got my treatment against malaria, to be taken every day, two days prior the trip to what the touristic clichés refer to as a corner of Paradise, and two weeks afterwards. Yeah, touristic clichés. They always mention the white sand beach and the coconut-trees, but never acknowledge that the most numerous beach boys and girls are the couples of mosquitoes Noah should have kicked out of his arch....

next step: the trip. It takes a stop-over in Cairns, then Port-Moresby in Papua (New Guinea) then Buka itself. I start on good Friday 2008, and won't get there before Christ was reborn on the Monday you know or don't know. Isn't that a spiritual journey?

In Buka, there's just dial-up internet link, so who knows when I can give you some news???
Keep in touch though, might be soon!

your Fluff!

Pacific Blackbox