Expedition Content

Name: Expedition Content
Genre: Documentary
Released: January 6, 2022
Duration: 78 min

2022

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Cinema Guild | Release Date: January 6, 2022 | Not Rated

Summary: Expedition Content draws on audio recordings made by recent college graduate and Standard Oil heir Michael Rockefeller as part of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea that set up tents among the indigenous Hubula (also known as Dani) people. In their nearly imageless film, Karel and Kusumaryati document the strangeExpedition Content draws on audio recordings made by recent college graduate and Standard Oil heir Michael Rockefeller as part of the 1961 Harvard-Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea that set up tents among the indigenous Hubula (also known as Dani) people. In their nearly imageless film, Karel and Kusumaryati document the strange encounter between the expedition and the Hubula people. The work explores and upends the power dynamics between anthropologist and subject, between image and sound, and turns the whole ethnographic project on its head. [Cinema Guild]
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Director: Ernst Karel and Veronika Kusumaryati

Genre(s): Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 78 min

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Manohla Dargis

Jan 6, 2022

The problem of translation — who speaks for whom and why — echoes through Expedition Content, which builds to a shattering climax during a long, boozy revel in which the expedition men joke and laugh. Read full review

Clayton Dillard

Jan 5, 2022

The issue of racism sits nestled under both this sequence and the field of anthropology as a whole, giving Expedition Content a nakedly ontological dimension that interrogates how images are produced and who produces them. Read full review

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