From the Pole to the Equator
|Dal Polo all'Equatore
Status: Released
Runtime: 96
Release Date: 19/09/1987
Origin Language: it
Origin Country: IT
Languages: No Language
Production: Gianikian-Ricci LucchiZDF
Countries: GermanyItaly
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0 (0)
The title Dal polo all'equatore was first used by the pioneering documentary maker, Luca Comerio, for a compilation film of 1925; it was used again by Yervant Gianikian and Angela Ricci Lucchi for their film of 1985. Much of the original has been re-worked: the 'found footage' has been re-shot, slowed down, tinted, and re-edited with a sound track of minimalist composition. As a result, the exotica of colonial travel and sport take on new and sinister meanings. The acts of violence, especially those of hunting, recur in patterns that suggest visually that war is a logical development. A close examination of the work, starting with the opening sequence of a railway journey, explores the centrality of questions of memory and history to this remarkable and influential film.
