Daumë

Ben Russell | Suriname, USA | 2008 | 6' |

| IFFR 2009

‘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

The Black and the White Gods
Spectrum Shorts
Live performance with double projection in which Ben Russell revives his anthropological material from Daumë.
Trypps #6 (Malobi)
Spectrum Shorts
Contemporary interpretation of the classic work by Jean Rouch.
Trypps #5 (Dubai)
Spectrum Shorts
A neon sign plays the leading role in a pointed pamphlet.
The Wet Season
Spectrum Shorts
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…