Documentary Films on Rock Art
Uncertain Spring - Rock Art of Twyfelfontein
The people who gathered around, and gained life from, that ‘uncertain spring’, were inspired, reassured and sustained by the animals they interacted with in their physical world. And by extension, these animals became avatars of human hopes and dreams. To lock that into place, to sanctify that, they carved the creatures on rock. The carvings were not exact replicas of nature; they were exaggerated, distorted, emphasized. The animals were adorned with geometric patterns. The art became symbolic.
Today, the people who carved these images are no longer there, but the animals that inspired them are. Indeed, and with certainty, the animals are the custodians of the art and the place that humans now call Twyfelfontein.
Twyfelfontein is a UNESCO World Heritage Site with legal protection under an international treaty for having cultural, historical, or scientific significance. The sites are judged to contain "cultural and natural heritage around the world considered to be of outstanding value to humanity".
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