From the pole to the equator

Duration: 96

Year Published: 1986

Format: 16mm

Color: Color

Sound: sound

Description: This experimental documentary uses the recently-discovered archives of Luca Comerio (1874-1940), a pioneer of Italian documentary film. The filmmakers have re-photographed, hand tinted and slowed Comerio's footage of exotic people, literally shot from the pole to equator around 1910. Scenes of early Arctic whalers, Cossack-like soldiers riding on horseback, missionary schools and British India at teatime are set to a minimal electronic score. Although the film is lyrical and dreamlike, the spectral images suggest a disturbing recurrent theme, that of western man as predator.

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