Facing Forward

Synopsis

In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking. What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? How can one ever know another? The voice-over, a fictional dialogue taken from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, may offer an answer. The explorer Marco Polo and Emperor Kublai Khan are speaking about travel and looking back on the past, when Polo observes, “The traveler recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”

Main Cast

Owen Oppenheimer

Narrator

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Crew

Department	Role	Name
Sound	Sound Designer	Hugo Dijkstal
Directing	Director	Fiona Tan
Editing	Editor	Fiona Tan
Department	Role	Name

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