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Framing the Other
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Filmmaker Name:
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Ilja Kok, Willem Timmers
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Film Length:
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25 min
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Film Year:
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2011
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Duration:
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21-45 min
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Decade:
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2010s
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Language:
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in English & Mursi
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Subtitle Language:
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English or French subtitles
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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Africa
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Subject:
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Tourism Studies
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The Mursi tribe resides in the basin of the Omo River, in the east African state of Ethiopia. Mursi women are known for placing large plates in their lower lips and wearing enormous, richly decorated earrings, which has become a subject of tourist attraction in recent years. Each year, hundreds of Western tourists come to see the unusually adorned natives; posing for camera-toting visitors has become the main source of income for the Mursi. To make more money, they embellish their “costumes” and finery to appear more exotic to the outsiders. However, by exaggerating their habits and lifestyle in such a manner they are beginning to cause their original, authentic culture to disintegrate.
Framing the Other portrays the complex relationship between tourism and indigenous communities by revealing the intimate and intriguing thoughts of a Mursi woman from Southern Ethiopia and a Dutch tourist as they prepare to meet each other. This humorous, yet simultaneously chilling film shows the destructive impact tourism has on traditional communities.
Framing the Other
Camera
Yidnekachew Shumete
Brechtje Boeke
Editor
Tracy Pallant
Willem Timmers
Music
Tewoldebirhan Girmay
Sound
Ashenafi Guideta
Sound Design
Robin Fuller
Cranc / Audio Post Production
Graphic Design
Bas van Druten
Mursi Fixers
Milisha Olibui
Olisurali Olibui
Special thanks to
Nadonge Rege and Nell Kaptejin
Carola Frentzen, Jan Kaptein, Asirege Olibui, Jafar Taha, Habteyesus Mathewos, Kibreab Heile Michael, Stefan Beljon, Paul Spijker, Irena Ateljevic, René van der Duim, Hans van Faassen, Gem TV, South Omo Research Center, Samrawit Moges, Olikoro Rege, Tamas Regi, and everyone from Mursi village Hinay
Executive Producer
Keith Bowers
Written, Produced and Directed by
Ilja Kok and Willem Timmers
An I CAMERA YOU productions / Ethiopian Film Institute co-production
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