The Wet Season
Tjúba tén
The Wet Season is an experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated performances, re-enactments and extemporaneous recordings, this film functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing culture in the present and as a historical document for the future. Whether the resultant record is directed towards its subjects, its temporary residents (film makers), or its Western viewers is a question proposed via the combination of long takes, materialist approaches, selective subtitling, and a focus on various forms of cultural labour. (BR)
Also 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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Film details
- Countries of production
- Suriname, USA
- Year
- 2008
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2009
- Length
- 47'
- Medium/Format
- 16mm