Them and Me (Eux et moi) October 15, 2006

Directed by Stéphane Breton, Appearing in Person
France 2001, video, color, 63 min.
French with English subtitles

As a tribe and its ethnologist meet on the highlands of Guinea, Them and Me inverts the classical approach of ethnographic films to show how the subject sees the person looking at it. The frustrations of the ethnologist and the speculations revolving around him become evident. What unfolds is a documentary not about an exotic or very exotic society but a film that reveals the exoticism of the one who observes.

Official Website: http://hcl.harvard.edu/hfa/films/2006fall/breton.html#them