Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

62 mins | Documentary | Sept. 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.

Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

62 mins | Documentary | Sept. 1, 2001

Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"
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.
Producers ARTE France Cinéma
Original title Images d'Orient: Tourisme vandale
Directors Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian
Writers Angela Ricci Lucchi, Yervant Gianikian

Cast

Giovanna Marini

as Narrator (voice)