Country: USA
Year: 2000
Duration: 7'


“Culled from four rolls of Super-8 film shot while the maker was a development worker in a small South American village, Daumë is at its center a film about ritual, power, and play. Daumë is both ethnography and critique; it is an interrogation into how to represent a place that can’t be represented.”



“One of the strangest films I have ever seen; its characters come and go as if they’re ‘primitives’ posing for the camera, either obeying or fighting an ethnographer’s controlling eye.” (Fred Camper, “Chicago Reader”) 

Biography

film director

Ben Russell

Ben Russell (USA, 1976) is a visual artist and experimental filmmaker. His films and performances have been presented in several museums and festivals, including the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, the Rotterdam Festival, and the Venice Festival. The series Recent Anthropologies (2000-2009) was presented to the Torino Film Festival along with the documentary Let Each One Go Where He May, his debut into feature films, which won the Cult Award. In 2012 he presented at the Festival Ponce de Léon, directed with Jim Drain, and the following year he won with Ben Rivers the Internazionale.Doc section with A Spell to Ward Off the Darkness. In 2017 he presented in Locarno competiton the documentary feature Good L

FILMOGRAFIA

Six Army Shorts (cm, 1997), Daumë (cm, 2000), Black and White Trypps Number One (cm, 2005), Black and White Trypps Number Two (cm, 2006), Black and White Trypps Number Three (cm, 2007), Black and White Trypps Number Four (cm, 2008), Trypps #5 (Dubai) (cm, 2008), Workers Leaving the Factory (Dubai) (cm, 2008), The Black and the White Gods (cm, 2008), Trypps #6 (Malobi) (cm, 2009), Let Each One Go Where He May (doc., 2009), Good Luck (doc., 2018), The Rare Event (mm, 2018).

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