Cannibal Tours

“Dennis O’Rourke’s “CANNIBAL TOURS” is simply (to be more precise,
complexly) stunning. While the cameras snap, the tourists bargain, and
Sonny and Cher sing ‘I Got You Babe’ over Radio Moscow, the Papua
New Guineans try to hold onto their world. ‘We sit here confused,’ one
laments, ‘while they take pictures of everything’ - while O’Rourke’s
camera shoots the whole of a social relation that is taking over the
world, the relation between the seeing and the seen. This double
anthropology subtly shows how connoisseurship and condescension
are linked, and how little the Western tribe of tourists understand their
own culture. “CANNIBAL TOURS” succeeds in being both devastating
and charming - an amazing combination.”
- Todd Gitlin, author of The Whole World is Watching, The Sixties
Inside Prime Time and The Twilight of Common Dreams
“A dryly funny, perceptive, and terribly disturbing documentary
masterwork.”
- John Hinde, ABC Radio (Sydney)