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Die Film AG zeigt am Dienstag, den 26.05.09 um 20.00 uhr s.t. im Institut für Ethnologie an der LMU, Raum 1.05:

„Cannibal Tours“ von Dennis O´Rourke

Australia 1988
72 min / English

„There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it.”

“Dennis O’Rourke’s “CANNIBAL TOURS” is simply (to be more precise, complexly) stunning. While the cameras snap, the tourists bargain, and Sonny and Cher sing ‘I Got You Babe’ over Radio Moscow, the Papua New Guineans try to hold onto their world. ‘We sit here confused,’ one laments, ‘while they take pictures of everything’ - while O’Rourke’s camera shoots the whole of a social relation that is taking over the world, the relation between the seeing and the seen. This double anthropology subtly shows how connoisseurship and condescension are linked, and how little the Western tribe of tourists understand their own culture. “CANNIBAL TOURS” succeeds in being both devastating and charming - an amazing combination.”

(www.cameraworklimited.com/films/cannibal-tours.html)