This seminar will trace the intersection of technology and
ideology in representations of travel across the genres of documentary
film, video and photography. Three films will focus the discussion
on specific examples of how film and video are implicated. The
four speakers will examine the role of visual media in tourism,
the aesthetics of representation, and how tourism is sustained
by images created by the state, the tourists, and the subjects
themselves.
Program
9.45-10.45am Spectacle, Indigenous Communities and Government
Policy in China
Joy Bai, PhD candidate, Research School of Pacific & Asian
Studies, ANU
Film: Culture Show, Rong li, 36 minutes, 2003
In a remote Sani village, local leaders and ordinary people
interact with anthropologists, television journalists, and other
Sani groups to create a picture of a traditional life that tourists
find attractive.
11.00-12.30am The Use Of Documentary Film In Sustainable
Tourism Workshops In Melanesia, Prof. Steven Wearing, School
of Leisure, Sport and Tourism, UTS
Film: Selo! Selo! Bigfala Canoe, Randall Wood &
Gabrielle Jones, 26 minutes, 1998
This film documents the effects of the impending arrival of
an Australian Cruise ship to the remote Vanuatu island of Epi.
12.30 Lunch break
1.15-2.15pm Photography, Diving, and Tropical Marine Resource
Management, Dr. Simon Foale, Resource Management in Asia
Pacific Program, RMAP Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies,
ANU.
2.45-4.15pm Mass-Tourism and Documentary Film: Discovering
The Place Of "The Other", Lisa Stefanoff, Visiting
Fellow, Centre for Cross-Cultural Research, ANU
Film: Strangers in Paradise, Gil Scrine & Tom Zubrycki,
54 minutes, 1989
The film follows a group of American and British tourists on
a ten-day tour of Australia at the height of the Bicentennial
celebrations. Their encounters with Aboriginal protestors at
the Australia Day celebration and subsequently at an Aboriginal
camp in Central Australia opens up a gap between the tourist's
expectations and what they actually find.
4.15-4.30pm Final Discussion
Contact us
Sandra Welkering
Centre for Cross-Cultural Research
The Australian National University
Canberra ACT 0200
Telephone: +61 2 6125 4581
Facsimile: +61 2 6248 0054
Email: sandra_welkerling@beyond.com.au
