Abstract This article examines German filmmaker Philip Scheffner’s 2007 film The Halfmoon Files: A Ghost Story about the Halfmoon Camp, a German WWI colonial prisoner-of-war camp. Extensive anthropological research was carried out upon its prisoners, and the camp was also the subject of popular colonial representations. Scholars and others made sound recordings, photographs, films, and drawings and recorded details of prisoners, this documentation now located in German archives. The film considers intertwined histories of German anthropology and colonialism at the camp by means of such documents and is also drawn to traces and mediated presences of individuals held there, evoked especially through sound recordings. Moreover, it looks searchingly at contemporary landscapes for traces and repression of this colonial history. Overall, the film is characterised by a sense of incompleteness of the archive, a layering of visual and aural techniques of display and absence, and metaphors of haunting, producing a ‘ghost story’.

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菲利普·谢夫纳 (Philip Scheffner) 的《半月档案》中的德国人类学和殖民主义档案

摘要 本文考察了德国电影制片人菲利普·谢夫纳 (Philip Scheffner) 2007 年的电影《半月档案：关于半月营的鬼故事》，半月营是德国第一次世界大战的殖民地战俘营。对其囚犯进行了广泛的人类学研究，该集中营也是流行的殖民代表的主题。学者和其他人制作了录音、照片、电影和图纸，并记录了囚犯的详细信息，这些文件现在位于德国档案馆。这部电影通过此类文件考虑了集中营中德国人类学和殖民主义交织的历史，还吸引了被关押在那里的个人的踪迹和中介存在，尤其是通过录音引起的。此外，它在当代景观中寻找这种殖民历史的痕迹和压抑。全面的，