AV Festival is delighted to welcome filmmakers Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi in person. The filmmakers use footage shot in India by tourists in the late 1920s to illustrate the elitist attitudes of Westerners toward the Far East. The film contrasts the wretched life of the poor and malnourished with the sumptuous lifestyles of the Europeans. Regional Premiere. 2001.

Milan-based filmmakers Yervant Gianikian & Angela Ricci Lucchi’s work has re-defined the documentary form, recurrent themes in their work include: war and peace, genocide and colonialism. Their techniques involve the manipulation of rare footage through re-photography, hand-tinted colour and altering film speed, to produce work that explores the fragility of the cinematic image and traces of historical ideologies. The two have presented work at major international film festivals including Cannes, Rotterdam and Venice, and at leading museums such as Museum of Modern Art, New York; Centre Pompidou, Paris; and Tate Modern, London. 

Curated by AV Festival as part of the Postcolonial Cinema Weekend. Part of AV Festival 14: Extraction, www.avfestival.co.uk

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