The Unintended Audience is a video essay built from archival footage drawn from Dutch colonial repositories. It foregrounds the politics of spectatorship, exposing the colonial gaze embedded in ethnographic and state-produced images.

The work operates as both critique and reclamation, calling for the archive to be reimagined as a space for decolonial memory-making and epistemic justice.

By revisiting footage from the Dutch Caribbean, it reveals how Antillean subjects were captured on film yet rarely addressed, seen, and not heard.

The Unintended Audience reclaims that space, questioning who owns history, who controls the archive, and what it can mean to truly see ourselves.