Synopsis
This is the story of Oom and Ool and their mother. Every day they walk. They gather. A nut, grains, which they rub free of straw, berries and fruits. The men come and go. They have spears and rocks and traps. They hunt the gigantic animal with the long, coarse fur. One day the sisters get lost in the wood. When night falls, they hear something breathe between the trees…
Mammut is a filosophical and beautiful story about two sisters in a distant past, inspired by Ursula Le Guin’s feminist essay about “The Carrier Bag Theory” and the conception that there is a new, more sustainable way of telling stories. Instead of telling the story of the spear, the heroic man and the hunter’s story, Kleinschmidt here tells the story of the gatherer.
