2026英国·荷兰短片
“A dispatch from the back-room of a museum” (Miranda Pennell).
In this ghostly tale, Pennell turns her forensic eye to the history of the Dutch “cultivation system” in Indonesia. “I am a ghost returned to tell the tale from the place where the end began”, says the narrator, a stand-in for the many primates violently extracted from their jungle habitats to be exhibited in museums and fairs in Europe.
Whilst previous works engaged with photographic archives, primarily those documenting the legacies of the British imperial project, A person of the Forest points to the interconnectedness of European colonialism, making use of the collections of the EYE film museum in Amsterdam, the Naturalis Biodiversity Centre in Leiden and the Artis Zoological Museum in Amsterdam.