CinemaOSMovie · 1999 · 0h 23m

Déjà vu

80%(1)IMDbDocumentary

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.

Directed byLisl Ponger

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 23m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1999
Studios
Polyfilm Verleih

Featuring

Cast & crew

8 credited
Starring

Pemba Doma Sherpa

Narrator

Karim Duarte

Narrator

Renee Gadsen

Narrator

Mahmoud Lamine

Narrator

Anre Mawazo-Mukalay

Narrator

Shaheen Merali

Narrator

Alexia Pichler

Narrator

Ana Schey

Narrator

Creative team
Directed by
Lisl Ponger

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