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Unaisi Ratubalavu
2 February, 2021, 6:45 pm
Semisi Maya at work on a painting, using the inside of
his wrists, the hair on his arms and knuckles.
Picture: FILE
On January 1, 1982, The Fiji Times featured a story on Semisi Maya, who was a leper and one of Fiji’s greatest painters. The article said Maya’s life was in ruins.
For 18 years he had suffered the ravages of two terrible diseases – leprosy and polio. And for 18 years, the country fought to stem this disease on Makogai, Fiji’s leper island.
In 1982, 38-year-old Maya had finally left Makogai for good.
The leprosy – the tuberculoid type that ate into a person’s nervous system – had burned itself out.
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“The Furnace” (MA) and a half
SET in WA in 1897, writer/director Roderick MacKay’s dramatic film tells a story about gold, camels, Islamist and Sikh cameleers, Chinese immigrants and crime.
Quite a mouthful of ingredients for the filmgoer to digest, but an example of Australian cinema at its best. The acting is top quality. The locations (shot around Kalbarri and Mt Magnet) are sere, dusty, with scanty vegetation, combining each in their unique way and despite lacking tenderness or gentleness, combining to give the film an ongoing beauty and emphasising the challenge that the outback throws in the face of all who seek to conquer it.