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Bontoc Eulogy

Marlon Fuentes
1995 United States 57 minutes English
© Marlon Fuentes

This film is a critical look at the exoticizing gaze of Western anthropologists by means of a fictive recounting of the true events that took place at the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair. By creating a faux-biography of his grandfather’s real-life inclusion in an exhibit on natives of the Philippines, filmmaker Marlon Fuentes shows how these approximately 1100 people were treated as scientific specimens. A combination of rare archival footage, sound recordings, and scripted sequences is used to construct a documentary on the outsider’s perspective of the American social sciences.

Production :
Marlon Fuentes
Distribution :
Cinema Guild

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