Images d'Orient - "Tourisme vandale"
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Yervant Gianikian
Giovanna Marini
Luis Agudo
Mircea Eliade
Thierry Garrel
Yervant Gianikian
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The new is implied through the themes seen in images from the past: emigration, ethnic problems, racism, exoticism. The film represents the iconography of Orientalism in documentary cinema. With a trip to India in the 1920s, Europeans entered into the "exotic picture"; it was the first kind of elite tourism which anticipated the vandalising phenomenon of mass tourism. The poverty of the natives, of the dancers, of children with bloated stomachs, of the railway workers and of the entangled bodies in the crowds is contrasted with the compact groups of these new tourists, who are always involved in official ceremonies against the backdrop of wealthy colonial residences. The two situations never mix. Who are these travellers? Why are they here? Why do their images disturb us?
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Released in United States 2001
Shown at Venice International Film Festival (New Territories) August 29 - September 8, 2001.
Released in United States 2001
Film made entirely with historical travel footage, re-filmed and re-edited.
Released in United States 2001 (Shown at Venice International Film Festival (New Territories) August 29 - September 8, 2001.)
