Elsewhere (2001)

User Rating:

8.9/10   

Director:

Nikolaus Geyrhalter

Writers:

Silvia Burner (writer)
Nikolaus Geyrhalter (writer)

Release Date:

31 May 2002 (Austria)

Genre:

Documentary

Plot:

During the year 2000 Geyrhalter and his teams travelled to a different destination each month, looking for places untouched by the millennium hysteria...

Plot Keywords:

Ethnographic

Awards:

2 wins

Runtime:

240 min (12 episodes)

Country:

Austria

Language:

German | English | Faliasch | Greenlandic | Khanty | Korowai | Kunwinjku | Ladakhi | Moso | Nisga'a | Ojihimba | Saami | Sardinian | Tamashek

Color:

Color

Sound Mix:

Dolby Digital

Certification:

Switzerland:7 (canton of Geneva) | Switzerland:7 (canton of Vaud)

Company:

Arte

Movie Connections:

Featured in Schnitte in Raum und Zeit (2006)

Fascinating

This four hour documentary is founded on a very intriguing concept, consisting of 12 20-minute fragments where we witnessed life in twelve very different locations on our planet earth. In these locations, we mostly watch indigenous people coping by, hunting, fishing, preparing their meals, dealing with the natural world in a way most city dwellers and inhabitants of rich countries can't imagine. If memory does not fail the twelve places featured in the movie are in Namibia, the Sahara, an Indian Village in the Canadian Pacific, Northern India, Southern China, a fishing village in Sardinia, Lappland, Greenland, Central Siberia, an aboriginal settlement in the Australian Outback, Papua New Guinea and Micronesia. Despite the extreme length of the movie, I was mesmerized by it.