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The Couple in the Cage (1993)

Gênero : Documentário, Drama

Runtime : 31M

Director : Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia

Sinopse

A witty satire about cultural stereotyping. In a series of 1992 performances, Coco Fusco and performance co-creator Guillermo Gómez-Peña decked themselves out in primitive costumes and appeared before the public as "undiscovered AmerIndians" locked in a golden cage - an exercise in faux anthropology based on racist images of natives. Presented eight times in four different countries, these simple performances evoked various responses, the most startling being the huge numbers of people who didn't find the idea of "natives" locked in a cage objectionable. This provocative video, directed and produced by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia, suggests that the "primitive" is nothing more than a construction of the West, and uses comic fiction to address historical truths and tragedies.

Atores

Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Paula Heredia
Paula Heredia

Tripulações

Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco
Director
Paula Heredia
Paula Heredia
Director
Coco Fusco
Coco Fusco
Co-Writer
Paula Heredia
Paula Heredia
Writer
Eric Davies
Eric Davies
Researcher
Daisy Wright
Daisy Wright
Editor