CinemaOSMovie · 1999 · 0h 10m

Facing Forward

In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking. What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? How can one ever know another? The voice-over, a fictional dialogue taken from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, may offer an answer. The explorer Marco Polo and Emperor Kublai Khan are speaking about travel and looking back on the past, when Polo observes, “The traveler recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”

Directed byFiona Tan

Play
Status
Released
Runtime
0h 10m
Language
EN
Released
January 1, 1999

Featuring

Cast & crew

1 credited
Starring

Owen Oppenheimer

Narrator

Creative team
Directed by
Fiona Tan
Fiona Tan

Keep watching

More like this

100 Years of Japanese Cinema5.8

100 Years of Japanese Cinema

1995 · Film

Amédée

Amédée

2024 · Film

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility7.2

Hitler & Stalin: Portrait of Hostility

2009 · Film

Feast of Friends6.9

Feast of Friends

1969 · Film

That's Black Entertainment7.0

That's Black Entertainment

1989 · Film

The Story of Bean7.1

The Story of Bean

1997 · Film

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off7.7

Tony Hawk: Until the Wheels Fall Off

2022 · Film

ways to spend it

ways to spend it

2025 · Film

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind7.9

Robin Williams: Come Inside My Mind

2018 · Film

Lens in the box

Lens in the box

2024 · Film

Time Bomb Y2K5.1

Time Bomb Y2K

2023 · Film

The Prime Minister Is Missing

The Prime Minister Is Missing

2008 · Film

I Am Steve McQueen6.1

I Am Steve McQueen

2014 · Film

Tunnel to Freedom7.2

Tunnel to Freedom

2021 · Film

Wintopia10.0

Wintopia

2019 · Film

Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious6.0

Keiko Kishi, Eternally Rebellious

2023 · Film

Balavoine, enquête sur un destin tragique8.0

Balavoine, enquête sur un destin tragique

2022 · Film

Paris : Les Lieux secrets de l'occupation7.8

Paris : Les Lieux secrets de l'occupation

2017 · Film

Once Upon A Time In Germany

Once Upon A Time In Germany

2022 · Film

Picked for you

Recommended movies

42 Up7.6

42 Up

1999 · Film

Maria by Callas7.4

Maria by Callas

2017 · Film

Being Eddie6.8

Being Eddie

2025 · Film

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes6.3

The Mystery of Marilyn Monroe: The Unheard Tapes

2022 · Film

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies6.5

Skin: A History of Nudity in the Movies

2020 · Film

Altman6.6

Altman

2014 · Film

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty7.8

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty

2000 · Film

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story7.5

Jaws @ 50: The Definitive Inside Story

2025 · Film

Stan Lee7.2

Stan Lee

2023 · Film

Spielberg7.5

Spielberg

2017 · Film

Visions of Light7.0

Visions of Light

1992 · Film

These Amazing Shadows7.4

These Amazing Shadows

2011 · Film

Val7.2

Val

2021 · Film

I Know That Voice7.1

I Know That Voice

2014 · Film

V/H/S6.1

V/H/S

2012 · Film

Being James Bond7.8

Being James Bond

2021 · Film

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert8.2

EPiC: Elvis Presley in Concert

2026 · Film

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained6.9

Django & Django: Sergio Corbucci Unchained

2021 · Film

The Walking Dead: The Return7.4

The Walking Dead: The Return

2024 · Film

The Chaplin Revue7.4

The Chaplin Revue

1959 · Film