Facing Forward
1999, English. Directed by Fiona Tan.
In reframing and re-editing existing ethnographic films, Tan exposes their anthropological underpinnings and questions the conventions of filmmaking. What is the relationship between the observer and the observed? How can one ever know another? The voice-over, a fictional dialogue taken from Italo Calvino’s Invisible Cities, may offer an answer. The explorer Marco Polo and Emperor Kublai Khan are speaking about travel and looking back on the past, when Polo observes, “The traveler recognises the little that is his, discovering the much he has not had and will never have.”
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Facing Forward isn’t streaming on any OTT platform in India yet; it released on 1 January 1999. (Checked 10 November 2026.)
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Who directed Facing Forward?
Facing Forward (1999) was directed by Fiona Tan and stars Owen Oppenheimer.