What happens when your past watches you back? This family faces themselves on a jungle screen.
Phil Agland revisits the Baka Pygmy family he filmed 25 years ago in his BAFTA award winning documentary 'Baka: People of the Rainforest'. An extraordinary journey into the heart of the rainforest in Cameroon, where the past of the Baka revisits them through watching the old film projected in the forest - raising questions about their old life in the forest and what is happening to them now.
Direction
Agland's 25-year patience pays off in every loaded glance.
Cinematography
Old 16mm projected onto forest canopy—meta-magic.
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
The original 1987 documentary helped establish Western 'noble savage' tropes; this sequel quietly interrogates that complicity.
The 1987 footage was so degraded that restoration teams had to separate mold colonies frame by frame.
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