Dec 15, 2009
In this interview, Claudia Cragg speaks
with Cyril Christo, a poet whose film
'A
Stitch in Time' (an anti-nuclear documentary) was
nominated for an Academy Award in 1988. His collections of poetry
include 'The
Twilight Language' (Canio's Editions) and 'Hiroshima,
my love' (Edwin Mellen Press 1997). His wife, Marie
Wilkinson, who is also featureds as a guest in the piece, is an
architect, planner, photographer. The two live in Santa Fe, New
Mexico.
Their new book is 'Walking Thunder'
which follows on from their previous work 'Lost
Africa'.
As Cyril Christo puts it, "Africa stands as the shadow of our
beginnings, cradle to humanity, and great mirror to what we are in
the process of becoming, a thirsting purgatory caught between
origin and our common fate. Marie and I continue to
document the disappearance of the essence of Africa". In
the future survival or demise of the elephant, they believe, lies
the future of mankind itself.