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The Mendi
The Mendi

THE MENDI

Directed by Steve Reinke
Canada, 2006
Documentary, Avant-Garde, Short

Synopsis

Over found footage from The Mendi – an ethnographic documentary made in Papua New Guinea for the CBC’s Man Alive television show in the 1970s – the narrator gives a spurious account of his summer supposedly spent as a teenage assistant to the filmmakers.

Synopsis

Over found footage from The Mendi – an ethnographic documentary made in Papua New Guinea for the CBC’s Man Alive television show in the 1970s – the narrator gives a spurious account of his summer supposedly spent as a teenage assistant to the filmmakers.