Binghamton University Harpur Cinema Presents: Expedition Content

Ernst Karel & Veronika Kusumaryati, United States, 2020, 78 min

Friday, April 8 and Sunday, April 10: Lecture Hall 6, 7:30 PM. Doors open at 7:00 pm. $4 single    Admission.

An immersive marvel of sonic ethnography, 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 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.