30 Anniversary, A Review in Films
Black girl
Senegal | OmeU
First Contact
Australia | original
The Australian brothers Michael, Dan, and James Leahy were the first white people to go on an expedition from 1930 to 1934 to the uncharted mountainous area of New Guinea, looking for gold. Unlike other adventurers, they had a camera with them. 50 years later, Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson followed in the footsteps of these “conquistadors” in this movie in which they show original film material together with statements by surviving indigenous people who remember the Leahys. Much has happened in the years between when the first images were recorded by the Leahy brothers and these new scenes. Colonialism, history, and acculturation occur between the images and are only visible in the discrepancy between then and now. (see Die Fremden sehen, Trickster Verlag 1984)
“The Papuans tell how they thought the white men were their ancestors, bleached by the sun and returned from the dead. They were amazed at the artifacts of 20th century life such as tin cans, phonographs and airplanes. When shown their younger, innocent selves in the found footage, they recall the darker side of their relationship with these mysterious beings with devastating weapons”. (…) FIRST CONTACT is one of those rare films that holds an audience spellbound. Humor and pathos are combined in this classic story of colonialism, told by the people who were there.” (Documentary Educational Resources)
Forest of bliss
USA | OmeU
Gbanga Tita
Belgium, France | OmU
İQué viva México!
USA, USSR | OmU
Photo Wallahs
Australia, England | OmeU
The day of a casual dock worker
Germany | original
The fish market and the fish
Germany | original
Three Times Piparsod: Life in an Indian Village
France, India | original