Recent Anthropologies
Combined programme
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IFFR 2009
Featuring four 16mm films shot primarily in the Maroon villages of Suriname, South America, this programme will focus on a major strain of Russell’s work that complicates traditions of ethnographic and documentary film. In a special live double-projector performance closing out the evening, Russell will challenge the spectre of representation in its entirety, shuttling the image to the point of total annihilation.
WARNING: This show contains visuals that may be harmful to those with epilepsy.
In this combined programme
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Daumë
What does a film look like without a narrative, a character or even just an emotional state to identify with? -
The Black and the White Gods
Live performance with double projection in which Ben Russell revives his anthropological material from Daumë. -
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The Wet Season
In their very own way, Ben Russell and Brigid McCaffrey record the rapidly changing way of life of the local population in the interior of…
