Déjà vu (1999)

• 62%
• 1999
• Dokumentarfilm
• Pemba Doma Sherpa
• Karim Duarte
• Renee Gadsen

Somewhere in a subtropical country white visitors crowd around dark-skinned plantation workers emptying their harvest sneaker. They look curious, as if wanting to test the quality of the tea leaves. Everywhere tourists take out their cameras whether in front of large animals in the wild gold-camel riders, whether in the face of decorated human bodies or daily work-routinen. Now and again, they look into the camera themselves. For later, for when they will proudly show their 'exotic' findet "at home". This posing contains a model of western travels and picture-making, which is over a century old. The fascinated gaze on the foreigners festen them in pre-formed frames. Lisl Ponger follows the trail of that gaze by taking amateur found footage material and linking it together in new ways.