Déjà vu

Déjà vu

23 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1999

Somewhere in a subtropical country white visitors crowd around dark-skinned plantation workers emptying their harvest baskets. They look curious, as if wanting to test the quality of the tea leaves. Everywhere tourists take out their cameras ­ whether in front of large animals in the wild or camel riders, whether in the face of decorated human bodies or daily work routines. Now and again they look into the camera themselves. For later, for when they will proudly show their 'exotic' finds at home. This posing contains a model of western travels and picture making which is over a century old. The fascinated gaze on the foreigners fixes them in pre-formed frames. Lisl Ponger follows the trail of that gaze by taking amateur found footage material and linking it together in new ways.

Déjà vu

23 mins | Documentary | Jan. 1, 1999

Déjà vu
Somewhere in a subtropical country white visitors crowd around dark-skinned plantation workers emptying their harvest baskets. They look curious, as if wanting to test the quality of the tea leaves. Everywhere tourists take out their cameras ­ whether in front of large animals in the wild or camel riders, whether in the face of decorated human bodies or daily work routines. Now and again they look into the camera themselves. For later, for when they will proudly show their 'exotic' finds at home. This posing contains a model of western travels and picture making which is over a century old. The fascinated gaze on the foreigners fixes them in pre-formed frames. Lisl Ponger follows the trail of that gaze by taking amateur found footage material and linking it together in new ways.
Producers Polyfilm Verleih
Original title Déjà vu
Directors Lisl Ponger
Writers

Cast

Pemba Doma Sherpa

as Narrator

Karim Duarte

as Narrator

Renee Gadsen

as Narrator

Mahmoud Lamine

as Narrator

Anre Mawazo-Mukalay

as Narrator

Shaheen Merali

as Narrator

Alexia Pichler

as Narrator

Ana Schey

as Narrator