Bontoc eulogy

Duration: 57

Year Published: 1995

Creator: a film by Marlon Fuentes.

Format: 16mm

Color: B&W

Sound: sound

Credits: Fuentes, Marlon.; Yearian, Bridget.

Description: PFA 1620-01-8867. Restricted: Other copy available for research.; Pacific Film Archive collection; non-circulating. CBPF.; Producer/director/editor, Marlon Fuentes ; camera, Reuben Domingo, et al... ; music, Douglas Quin ; story, Marlon Fuentes, Bridget Yearian.; Narrator: Marlon Fuentes.; A personal and poignant docudrama that examines the Filipino experience at the 1904 St. Louis World's fair. The film focuses on the filmmaker's grandfather, an Igorot warrior, one of the 1,100 tribal natives displayed as anthropological 'specimens' in the Philippine village exhibit. A unique fusion of rare archival images, verite, and carefully orchestrated visual sequences shot in the present, the film is an innovative investigation of history, memory and the spectacle of the "other" in the turn-of-the-century America.; PFA 1620-01-8867. CONDITION NOTE: Last inspected: 23 Jun 1999; sprockets; Very good condition; 1 splice in picture area; sprocket holes have been pulled from excessive tension throughout the print

Metadata Source:BERKELEY ART MUSEUM AND PACIFIC FILM ARCHIVE