GOLDEN
A film by Annie Albagli, Minoosh Zomorodinia, Cintia Santana, and Carolyn Chen. Golden premiered at Artist Television Access in San Francisco in October 2019.
Living off the land, on the margins of Silicon Valley, "G-nug," "the largest gold nugget on earth," confronts a dry tap. A debilitating drought prompts her to journey to the steps of City Hall to recite an erasure poem: the Declaration of Independence missing the letters “T,” “R,” “U,” “M,” and “P”. “Golden” ends with her sleeping beside San Francisco’s historic golden Fire Hydrant, where hoodlums beat her up and leave her to die. The following day, G-nug’s dreams of water come true, when a blizzard hits the city, but in the form of fatal excess.
What begins as a mockumentary about a golden nugget, slowly reveals the representation of a homeless individual seeking basic resources. The embodiment of "the world's largest gold nugget" is metaphorically rich; G-nug is made of gold but has few resources, forcing us to consider our worth, what we value, and at what cost.
