With Nancy Jouwe, cultural historian, curator and author; Magali Mélandri, Head of the Oceania–Insulinde Heritage Unit; and Stéphanie Xatart, art historian, co-curators of the exhibition "Plumes from Paradise: Journeys of an Extraordinary Bird from New Guinea".
This film programme extends the themes of Plumes from Paradise through the perspectives of documentary filmmakers, activists and Indigenous communities. From campaigns for sustainable development to an immersion in the forest and the relationships between human and non-human worlds, and the struggles to preserve ancestral territories, these screenings explore some of the major contemporary issues affecting New Guinea.
The investigative documentary Pig Feast follows the Indigenous Marind, Yei, Awyu and Muyu communities of southern Indonesian Papua as they confront the expansion of large-scale agro-industrial and energy projects. Through their testimonies, the film examines how the transformation of ancestral forests into plantations and industrial zones threatens their territories, ways of life and cultures, while also highlighting local resistance to these developments.
The film was produced by the Indonesian documentary collective Watchdoc in collaboration with several environmental and Indigenous rights organisations, including Greenpeace Indonesia and Jubi Media. It draws on extensive investigative and fieldwork conducted in Papua.
Pig Feast is co-directed by Dandhy Dwi Laksono, an Indonesian documentary filmmaker and investigative journalist, and Cypri Paju Dale, an anthropologist specialising in Papua. Their collaboration brings together journalistic investigation and academic expertise to examine the social, political and environmental consequences of development projects in the region.
- Nancy Jouwe is a cultural historian, curator and author. Her work focuses on colonial legacies, postcolonial memory, gender, Papuan cultural heritage and processes of decolonisation.
- Magali Melandri is Head of the Oceania–Insulinde Heritage Unit at the Musée du quai Branly – Jacques Chirac. She co-curates Plumes from Paradise.
- Stéphanie Xatart is an art historian and independent curator. She co-curates Plumes from Paradise.
The day before
In conversation with Wim Manuhutu
- Spices, Soldiers and New Horizons: Histories and Legacies of the Moluccas
- Reading Room Jacques Kerchache
- Friday 16 October 2026 at 5 p.m.
- Duration: 08:18
- Place: Salle de cinéma
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TimeSlots:
Saturday 17 October 2026 from 17:00 to 19:00 - Public: Researcher, student, All publics
- Categorie : Cinema
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Free entry (subject to available places)
- As part of: Cycle de cinéma autour de l’exposition "Plumes du paradis"
