Images d’Orient, tourisme vandale

Images of the East, Barbaric Tourism

  • Yervant Gianikian
  • Angela Ricci Lucchi
  • 2001
  • France; Italy
  • 62 minutes

The filmmakers use footage shot in India by tourists in the late 1920s to illustrate the elitist attitudes of Westerners toward the Far East. The film contrasts the wretched life of the poor and malnourished with the sumptuous lifestyles of the Europeans.

  • Production : Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi; Arte France
  • Editing : Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi
  • Photography : Yervant Gianikian; Angela Ricci Lucchi