Aslan went to the city of Ushuaia in Patagonia, to register penguin mating. But he discovered something else in Ushuaia: the extinction of the Onas (or Selk'nams), indigenous people who were decimated by white foreigners. The last Ona, Angela Loij, died in 1974. When she sang Ona songs nobody could understand her, so when she died, so did her culture, her language, songs and traditions. Or perhaps not. Aslan did some research and found strikingly prejudiced and xenophobe notes on the Onas, written by Charles Darwin in 1845. And made this experimental short film, which does not need extra length or spoken words to be worthwhile.
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