Onlookers
USA2023documentary72'Ziemia obiecana (2023)
ONLOOKERS offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. ONLOOKERS invites audiences to reflect on their own modes of tourism, while asking the looming existential questions: Why do we travel? What do we seek?
- directed by
- Kimi Takesue
Award-winning film director and recipient of numerous scholarships, including the Guggenheim Fellowship and the Rockefeller Media Arts Fellowship. Her documentaries have been presented both at prestigious museums and numerous international film festivals, such as Sundance, Locarno, Rotterdam, SXSW, Los Angeles, Mar del Plata, CPH:DOX and DocLisboa, winning many awards. At present, she works as a professor at the Department of Art, Culture and Media at Rutgers University in Newark.
- cinematography
- Kimi Takesue
- sound
- Tom Efinger
- editing
- Kimi Takesue
- production
- Kimi Takesue (Kimikat Productions)
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