‘One of the strangest films I have ever seen; its characters come and go as if they’re primitives posing for the camera, either obeying or fighting an ethnographer’s controlling eye.’ (Fred Camper) Shot on four Super-8 rolls while working as a development-aid worker in Surinam.
Also in this combined programme
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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…
Film details
- Countries of production
- Suriname, USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 6'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm
