Czy film obserwacyjny musi byc realistyczny? (Cannibal Tours Dennisa O’Rourke’a)

• Authors: Sławomir Sikora

Title variants

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DENNIS O’ROURKE’S CANNIBAL TOURS – DOES OBSERVATIONAL FILM NEED TO BE REALISTIC?

• Languages of publication: PL

Abstracts

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Sikora examines Dennis O’Rourke’s film in terms of the elements of its construction and its realistic (or documentalistic) elements. The theme of the film is a non realistic journey. The focus is not on specific places, but on tourism. This is an interesting example of multi-sited anthropology, that poses many questions. Do tourists encounter real places and learn about the authentic lives of “the natives”, or quite the opposite – do they enter spaces of created fictions, that they themselves in part are responsible for? Should film, that demonstrates the creation of fiction, refer to “real” space and time, or should it follow the markers of its fictionalised time-space? Does observational film need to be realistic?

Keywords

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O’Rourke Dennis; Cannibal Tours; multi-sited anthropology; observational film

• Publisher: Polska Akademia Nauk. Instytut Sztuki PAN
• Journal: Kwartalnik Filmowy
• Year: 2011
• Issue: 75-76
• Pages: 301-306

Contributors

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Sławomir Sikora