The empire project

A few hundred years ago, the Dutch ruled large portions of the globe through their East and West India companies. Today that colonial empire is largely forgotten, but the traces of it fascinated Kel O’Neill and Eline Jongsma, an American-Dutch filmmaking team. The pair spent two years traveling to seven countries formerly controlled by the Dutch to document the remnants of colonialism and came away with enough stories for a half-dozen films.
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Eline Jongsma: When we were visiting and filming these ladies they reminded me a lot of my grandmother, who was born in colonial Indonesia. For me it was like meeting relatives, and that was very strange because I didn’t expect to understand or recognize the hybrid culture of a country that I’d never visited. It was like a house full of grandmothers for me—the way they talk, the way they dress, the way they compose themselves
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Boeroeng schreef:

14 oktober 2012 om 11:15

De nazaten te Sri Lanka, India, Malakka zijn vergeten groepen, maar Ik mis in het verhaal van de filmers dat ze ook de Indisch-Nederlandse nazaten in Nederland, Amerika en Indonesië hebben gefilmd.

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Ed Vos schreef:

14 oktober 2012 om 09:34

It’s weird, people really want technology and they want consumable goods. And you got to hand it to the Chinese because they are really giving it to everybody right now. You can buy Chinese plastic shit everywhere in the world. It’s like the one common denominator. They actually say in Indonesia, if you buy a shirt at the market, it smells like China. 😉

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Ed Vos schreef:

14 oktober 2012 om 00:14

I think that this project showed us that people don’t want democracy—they just want an iPhone.

Als het enigszins kan een Blackberry 😉

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