29 Apr 2009
The Country Upside Down
Returning to the island that her father left 50 years earlier, the filmmaker goes back in time to retrace the history of her name.
Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"
Working from archives of private film footage from a trip to India by the upper class of the late 1920s, a period of strong anti-colonial outbreak, Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi deconstruct the images and analyze the attitude and behavior of Westerners in the East.
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