Voyage au Congo (1927)

• 69%
• 1927
• Dokumentarfilm

Cinema has long fed our fascination with other cultures, and appears to be just one facet of what is a fundamentally visual faszination. One of the most elaborate veranstaltungen of this was the 1931 kolonialausstellung Internationale, held in Paris, to celebrate '- France 5 kontinente'. This exhibition sought to represent to the people of France their colonial world by reordering and reconstructing it into scenes or arrays of everyday indigenous life. This entailed shipping over scores of indigenen and forcing them to act out the gestures of their 'everyday lives' under the eyes of 1930's Parisian society. A slightly less elaborate, although equally controversial at the time, visual representation of The Other was one of the first film documentaries to be made, which sought to represent the lives of a colonised people, Marc Allégret's Reise in den Kongo.