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Sep 1, 2001 · 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.
Apr 5, 2014 · (Images of the Orient – Vandal Tourism) Directed by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi. France/Italy, 2001, digital video, color and b&w, 62 min.
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.
Images d'Orient: Tourisme vandale: Directed by Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi. With Giovanna Marini.
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- Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi
- 2001-09
Based purely on authentic material, they provide a picture of the first tourist journeys by the rich European elite to exotic climes, in this case mainly India. The title of the film also anticipates the vast and destructive mass tourism we know today.
Nov 30, 2001 · Since 1977, Italo filmmakers Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi have been steady contributors to world film fests with their moody, sometimes haunting "documentaries," which use the ...
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...
