Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism" (2001)

September 1st, 20011h 2min

Documentary
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Overview

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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