TJUBA TEN (THE WE... - Columbia, SC

TJUBA TEN (THE WET SEASON) AND OTHER EXPERIMENTAL ETHNOGRAPHIES WITH BEN RUSSELL Tjba Tn (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, 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recordings, this film functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a historical document for the future.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 toward its subjects, its temporary residents (the 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. Ben Russell is an itinerant photographer, curator and experimental... [read full story]