Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

Angela Ricci Lucchi
2001-09-01

5
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.