Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi are amongst the most remarkable film-makers working. This is a still from their reworking of Luca Comerio’s documentary From the Pole to the Equator. (The original was produced in Italy when futurism was the rage and national leaders dreamed of making the Mediterranean mare nostrum.)
These early films document the untold lives of thousands of native peoples who appeared in front of the camera during the apotheosis of Western colonialism… Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi’s…haunting avant-garde meditation on cinema…exploiting almost every trope of early ethnographic filmmaking…
On view at Harvard Film Archives this April.
2 years ago • Notes