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From the pole to the equator
- Title
- From the pole to the equator [motion picture] / ZDF ; produced by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.
- Publication
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1986.
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Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4253 F | Offsite |
Available - Can be used on site. Please visit New York Public Library - Offsite to submit a request in person. | Moving image | By appointment only | M16 4253 F | Offsite |
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- Description
- 2 film reels (96 min.) : sd., col.; 16 mm.
- Summary
- This experimental documentary uses the recently-discovered archives of Luca Comerio (1874-1940), a pioneer of Italian documentary film. The filmmakers have re-photographed, hand tinted and slowed Comerio's footage of exotic people, literally shot from the pole to equator around 1910. Scenes of early Arctic whalers, Cossack-like soldiers riding on horseback, missionary schools and British India at teatime are set to a minimal electronic score. Although the film is lyrical and dreamlike, the spectral images suggest a disturbing recurrent theme, that of western man as predator.
- Subjects
- Credits (note)
- Producers, directors, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi; music, Keith Ullrich, Charles Anderson.
- Title
- From the pole to the equator [motion picture] / ZDF ; produced by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi.
- Imprint
- New York : Museum of Modern Art, 1986.
- Credits
- Producers, directors, Yervant Gianikian, Angela Ricci Lucchi; music, Keith Ullrich, Charles Anderson.
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- Added Author
- Gianikian, Yervant.Ricci Lucchi, Angela.
- Branch Call Number
- M16 4253 F