2020美国纪录片《Expedition Content》由Ernst Karel导演,影片讲述的是:
In 1961 filmmaker Robert Gardner organized the Harvard Peabody Expedition to Netherlands New Guinea today West Papua Funded by the Dutch colonial government and private donations and consisting of several wealthy Americans wielding 16mm film cameras still photographic cameras reeltoreel tape recorders and a microphone the expedition settled for five months in the Baliem Valley among the Hubula people It resulted in Gardner’s influential film Dead Birds two photo books Peter Matthiessen’s book “Under the Mountain Wall” and two ethnographic monographs Michael Rockefeller of the Standard Oil Rockefellers was tasked with taking pictures and recording sound in and around the Hubula world
Expedition Content is an augmented sound work composed from 37 hours of tape which document the strange encounter between the expedition and the Hubula people The piece reflects on intertwined and complex historical moments in the development of approaches to multimodal anthropology in the lives of the Hubula and of Michael and in the ongoing history of colonialism in West Papua