Cannibal Tours
7.6
“There is nothing so strange in a strange land, as the stranger who comes to visit it.”
The film follows a number of European and American ecotourists as they travel from village to village throughout the Sepik River area in Papua New Guinea, driving hard bargains for local handcrafted items, paying to view formerly sacred ceremonies and taking photographs of every aspect of "primitive" life. With some prodding, the tourists unwittingly reveal an unattractive and pervasive ethnocentrism to O'Rourke's cameras. The tourists thus become somewhat dehumanized by the camera, even as the tourists themselves are busy exoticizing even the most mundane aspects of Sepik River life.
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Dennis O'Rourke Director · Tim Litchfield Editor
United States release June 14, 1988 · Produced in Australia, Papua New Guinea · Languages English, German, Hiri Motu, Italian
Production
Channel 4 Television
Production
Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios
Production
Australia · Papua New Guinea
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Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German · Hiri Motu · Italian
Release dates
Australia · January 1, 1988
United States · June 14, 1988
Theatrical
Sweden
January 27, 1989 · Göteborg Film Festival
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