An anthropologist pretends to be a missionary so he can travel to a remote tropical island and study its native inhabitants. He only speaks a little of their language, and it becomes clear to him early on that there is much more going on around him - in the village, in the forest - than meets his outsider’s eye. He runs into a young woman, a foreigner with whom he can communicate, yet she too seems mysterious. She tells him there are thieves on the island, thieves he cannot see…
Adoor Yeh’s sketched, multi-chrome style lends an air of rough-cut vivacity to Remote Island’s visual narrative. Adoor manipulates the known and the unknown together to create a captivating sense of suspense. The story provides a reading experience of gradual yet tense revelation.
