The Globalization Tapes is a film by workers for workers that describes the history of globalisation from the perspective of Indonesian palm oil plantation farmers. Using themselves as case studies, the film-makers track contemporary developments from the roots of colonialism to the present moment, creating both a moving portrait of the Indonesian workers’ movement and providing a perspective on the astonishing entanglements and relationships between militarism, trade, third-world debt and international institutions like the World Bank and the WTO. Through filming The Globalization Tapes in 2003, Oppenheimer came into contact with victims of the Indonesian Genocide of the 1960s for the first time, which led to the beginning of the research phase for his later film The Act of Killing.

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