An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925

9.5 minutes | 2012 I 16mm
 

An Incomplete History of the Travelogue, 1925 subverts the form of the amateur ethnography to reflect upon our cultural anxiety around race, evolution, and civilization. This lyrical artist-essay film captures the spirit of excess embodied by The Great Gatsby (published in 1925) in fragments from the home movies of an anonymous American family on a "Grand Tour" of Europe and North Africa.