The Gaze Back
2005 · 90 min · Documentary
You take things around you for granted. So you don't want what's right next to you, but what's far away.
Moves the viewer into the perspective of a foreigner. Mexicans who live in Austria and Austrians who spend their lives in Mexico: through clichés and yearnings - these emigrants create a picture of their countries, and through determining their location, attempt to their identity. They are accompanied by two cinematographers, who also go to a "foreign" place. Their views go along with the narrators and narratives into the respective, other country.
- Director
- Fridolin Schönwiese
- Writer
- Fridolin Schönwiese
- Released
- March 18, 2005
- Language
- German
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