"Cannibal tours"
By: O'Rourke and Associates Filmmakers ; producer, director, Dennis O'Rourke ; produced in association with The Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies ... [and] Channel 4.
Contributors: O'Rourke, Dennis; Institute of Papua New Guinea Studies; Channel Four (Great Britain); Direct Cinema Ltd
Publisher: Direct Cinema, Ltd.
Published: 200u
Place of publication: Santa Monica, CA
Language: ger
Format: [videorecording] /
Number of pages: 72
Subjects: Description and travel; Social life and customs; Tourism; Travelers; Psychology; Tourists; Travel; Psychological aspects; Tourism and art
Description: This film depicts two journeys. The first is that of a group of wealthy bourgeois German, Italian and American tourists on a luxury cruise up the mysterious Sepik River, in the jungles of Papua New Guinea -- the packaged version of a "heart of darkness." The second journey (the real text of the film) is a metaphysical one. It is an attempt to discover the place of "the Other" in the popular imagination. It affords a glimpse at the real (mostly unconsidered or misunderstood) reasons why "civilized" people wish to encounter the "primitive."
Notes: Originally produced as a motion picture in 1987.

Photography, Dennis O'Rourke ; editor, Tim Litchfield ; music, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart.

Filmed on the Sepik River.

DVD, ntsc, region 1; fullscreen; Dolby digital.

Dialogue primarily in German, Italian and Papuan with English subtitles ; some dialogue in English.