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The Wet Season ( Tjüba Tën )
Brigid McCaffrey, Ben Russell
2008 - États-Unis - Couleur - 47'

Shot in Surinam, The Wet Season has all the ingredients of an ethnographic film: the women’s chores and the men’s activities, rituals. Whether staged or not, these scenes are not intended to represent life in a Surinam village, but rather to bring out the tics and quirks typical of a cinematographic genre, to unravel the codes of representation and entertain us with this joyful iconoclastic undertaking. The film accumulates an excessive number of errors, filming accidents. Taken to the extreme, the ethnographic approach is inverted and revealed in its true light, that of home moviemaking. The academic presentation creates a family film for the natives. Hence, the film’s double title. One only ever films oneself. (Yann Lardeau)


Photography : Brigid McCaffrey, Ben Russell
Sound : Brigid McCaffrey, Ben Russell
Editing : Brigid McCaffrey, Ben Russell
Production : Ben Russell
Distribution : Ben Russell (br@dimeshow.com)