Images of the Orient - "Vandalic Tourism"

  • September 2001
  • 1hr

    2mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    Yervant Gianikian,

    Angela Ricci Lucchi,

    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.