A novelist watches himself be born again on film — meta before meta was cool.
Dramatisation of part of Wilson Harris' novel "Da Silva's Cultivated Wilderness".
Direction
Nutley translates Harris's dense prose into hypnotic visual poetry.
Acting
Harris playing himself creates endless fascinating distance from the material.
Director
Colin Nutley
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Harris's 'Cultivated Wilderness' pioneered Guyanese magical realism years before García Márquez hit English shelves.
Peter Straker, who plays Da Silva, was primarily a glam rock singer — this might be his only dramatic film role.
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