Tropic Fever

Tropic Fever uncovers the racial and spatial imprints of colonial plantations and their entanglement with our contemporary society. The film narrates monologues based on a semi-autobiographical book written by László Székely, a Hungarian who worked several years as a plantation manager in Sumatra. By juxtaposing the literary narrative with the visual archival documents from across Dutch institutions, this project aims to depict the spatial implications and the racial imprints embodied in the practice of commodity extraction, a crucial economic motive sustaining colonialism.