Tjúba Tén The Wet Season (2008)

An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre Suriname at the start of 2007 Composed of communitygenerated performances reenactments and extemporaneous recordings this film functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a historical document for the future Whether the resultant record is directed towards its subjects its temporary residents filmmakers or its Western viewers is a question proposed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 labor