Kobarweng or Where is Your Helicopter?

Copyright artist(s) and courtesy argos

Artist(s)

Year

1992

Duration

00:24:00

Original format

U-Matic

Color

col.

Color system

NTSC

Availability

Distribution
Collection

This documentary deals with the history of a remote village in the highlands of New Guinea. The tape assembles archival footage and oral histories depicting the first encounter between the villagers and the outside world. Switching the roles of observer and observed, the relation implied in the anthropological representation is reversed: the desire of the observing anthropologist itself becomes “other”, “exotic”, an object of curiosity destabilised by the villager’s questions.