# animate! › Films › Museum of Stolen Souls by Chris Elliott › synopses

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Discovery terms: 1990s animation, model animation, photographic animation, 2d animation, colonialism, museums, cultural dispossession, missionaries, experimental short film, filmmaker

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**Museum of Stolen Souls** a film by Chris Elliott

1993, 6 min 56 sec

### animate! synopsis

Face it, the objects have lives. From missionary madness to museum piece, the ‘history’ of rainforest peoples goes under the lens. Time to give it back…

### short synopsis

Christian Evangelism has had, and still has, much involvement in the ‘history making’ of rainforest cultures.

**Museum of Stolen Souls** uses 2-D, model and photo animation to depict ruthless missionary activity, past and present, and to raise questions of how and why objects came to be removed from their cultural sources.

**Museum of Stolen Souls** film, stills and other materials © Chris Elliott 1993