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The Tailenders (Adele Horne, US, 72 min., video, 2005)
Adele Horne's documentary “The Tailenders” is a captivating look at a missionary group's use of ultra-low-tech audio devices to evangelize indigenous communities facing crises caused by global economic forces. The video traces Global Recordings Network on their journeys within the Solomon Islands, Mexico, India and the United States, where they distribute their recordings of Bible stories in indigenous languages, along with hand-wind audio players, to "the Tailenders": the last people to be reached by worldwide evangelism. In The Tailenders, Horne takes a critical look at Global Recordings' remarkable fusion of evangelism, technology and marketing, and also explores how meaning changes as it crosses language, culture, borders, and economic divides.
