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Facing Forward

Plot: 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
Release Date: Friday, January 1 1998
26 years ago
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Portrait of Owen OppenheimerOwen Oppenheimer
Owen Oppenheimer was
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as 'Narrator'.
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Crew

Portrait of Fiona TanFiona Tan
Fiona Tan was
33 in Facing Forward
as 'Director, Editor'
Sat, Jan 01 1966
Portrait of Hugo DijkstalHugo Dijkstal
Hugo Dijkstal was
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as 'Sound Designer'
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