“Watching” is a short ‘experimental documentary’ shot in super 8 format in Peru. The images reveal everyday life-people cooking, dancing in the street, young kids hanging out interspersed with the images of striking miners. This mix of anger, despair and joy are blended together to say that all of these are the ingredients of life here- one is not more important than the other. Together they reveal the power of ordinary people and culture. The‘ romantic’ music that accompanies the images and the use of ‘watching’ eyes serve to critique mainstream culture and its view of the ‘third world’.
Watching
- Film Maker
- Arriaga, Marcos
- Year
- 1994
- Country
- Canada
- Language
- Format
- 16mm
- Length
- 7
- Genre
- experimental
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