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Decolonizing Film-Making and Indigenous Self-Representation in West Papua with Wensislaus Fatubun
06/30/2025
Decolonizing Film-Making and Indigenous Self-Representation in West Papua with Wensislaus Fatubun
Wensislaus Fatubun is a PhD candidate at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand), focusing on media and Pacific studies. Since 2003, he has worked as a video maker, photographer, journalist, and human rights defender with Indigenous communities in West Papua, Kalimantan, Flores Islands, and North Sulawesi. From 2008 to 2012, he served as a program manager for the Jakarta-based Catholic Church group Justice, Peace, Integrity, and Creation (JPIC MSC). In 2011, he founded the Papuan Voices, and in 2013, he founded the Dayak Voices. From 2019 to 2022, he served as a media and human rights advisor to the Papuan People’s Assembly. In this episode, Wensi shares his thoughts on media, community-based collaborative film-making, Indigenous visual self-representation and its consequences. We will also cover complex topics such as the intersection of extractivism and militarization, gendered Indigenous experiences in West Papua, filmmaking as a form of political activism, and Indigenous ways of storytelling. Music: -
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