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Bowers Cave

2010 · 20 min

A quiet, reflective documentary essay that lingers on artefacts and landscape, asking who owns the past.

Overview
In 1885 two boys in Southern California discover a cave of Chumash Indian artefacts in the San Martin Mountains on land that is now part of the Chiquita Canyon landfill, located in the small town of Castaic. The cave is known as Bowers Cave, named after the amateur archaeologist Stephen Bower, a notorious looter of Indian sites, who bought the artefacts from the boys and then resold them for a profit, mostly to private collectors. Now, a small portion exists in the Peabody museum at Harvard.
How it feels
Measured and demanding.
About
Memory, greed, colonialism, class
Content
No violence, gore, sexual content or swearing.
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How it feels

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Full breakdown
Tone
    Pacing
    measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
    Attention
    demanding, 4 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
    Themes
    Places
    Era
    period
    Audience
    adult
    Form
    Content intensity
    • Gore none
    • Language none
    • Violence none
    • Sex none
    All scales, 0 to 10
    Scales, 0 to 10
    ScaleValue0 to 10
    Action1
    Horror1
    Humour1
    Realism9
    Romance0
    Tension2
    Darkness4
    Complexity6
    Emotional weight5

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    Details

    Directed by
    Lee Anne Schmitt, Lee Lynch
    Runtime
    20 min
    Country
    United States of America

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