A Belgian aristocrat ditches the manor for headhunters and 16mm film in the Amazon.
A documentary that invites us to discover the strange path led by the explorer-ethnographer Marquis de Wavrin who, in the 1920s and 1930s, made ethnographic films in several countries of Latin America.
Cinematography
Stunning restoration of de Wavrin's own 1920s ethnographic footage.
Direction
Winter and Plantier let the archive speak without hagiography.
Director
Grace Winter
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
De Wavrin's original negatives were discovered in a Belgian castle attic in 2011, undeveloped for 80 years.
The film quietly belongs to a wave of European documentaries re-examining colonial archives—think 'The Act of Killing' but for Belgian guilt.
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