language models

Afraid, discouraged to speak. Destituted in writing, historically undone. “simi wallpamakuna” (quechua for “Language Models”) considers the eclipse, extermination and re-emergence of languages through Ojibwe, Quechua, Michif, Chinese, Farsi, and Arabic. Starting from the Chinese Massacre in Rock Springs, Wyoming, the film considers language models under the shadow of colonial power through poems, testimonies, phrases and words.