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.
Swiss Premiere
Fri April 17th, 10:45pm
Kaserne Basel, Rossstall
In Indonesian Language with English Subtitles
Duration: 60 Min
Price: 10 CHF
(Double-Feature with "These Places We've Learned to Called Home")
Director: Joshua Oppenheimer
Co-Director: Christine CynnUnion
Co-Director: Anar, Basir, Erman, Hayati, Jumiati, Karman, Kirman, Mirza, Misnan, Muntoha
Production: Christine Cynn, Joshua Oppenheimer
Camera: Sogand Bahram, Mariavictoria Cortes, Valentin Manz, Joshua Oppenheimer, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
Cut: Christine Cynn, Irene Lusztig, Joshua Oppenheimer, Andrea Luka Zimmerman
A collaboration between Independent Plantation Workers' Union of Sumatra (Indonesia),
International Union of Food and Agricultural Workers (IUF) and Vision Machine Film Project.