The Odyssey of the Look

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The principle is traveling to a place and staying there almost as a local, as long as possible. The subject always comes on its own, even if it is always connect to a traditional way of life which is in danger of -and in opposition to- the world’s consumerist, the irresponsible and invasive monoculture: the culture of plastic and supermarkets.

As an introduction, the film is quite abstract, like a myth. Following it, most of the films (or chapters) of this series will be mute. In Kulusuk (East Greenland) dwell the last polar bear hunters. In Masca (in the North West of Tenerife) the last farmers cultivating their agriculture on mountain terraces, and the end of the pastoralism are the subjects of the lost villages. In Sisimiut (West Greenland) the harbor industry is in rivalry with traditional hunting. In Sisimiut a short poetical film holds landscapes in opposition to some pixels on a TV screen.

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In Transylvania (Romania) the Roma people and poor peasants are still laboring with the aid of horses; at the same place a short film becomes almost a series of sentences. In Ushguli (Georgia, Caucasus) the traditional way of life is still preserved by isolation and altitude...

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The Odyssey of the Look (80', 16mm, 2018)

Gilles Vuillard

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