Cannibal Tours (1988)

"There is nothing so strange in a strange land as the stranger who comes to visit it"Movie
Audience Score
59
Cannibal Tours
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 ORourkes 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
DirectorDennis O'Rourke

Movie Details

Theatrical Release:June 14th, 1988
Original Language:English
Production Companies:Channel 4 Television Institute of Papua New Guinea Studios