The couple in the cage [videorecording] : a Guatinaui odyssey / Authentic Documentary Productions a video by Coco Fusco and Paula Heredia directed & produced by Coco Fusco, Paula Heredia.


New York, NY : Third World Newsreel, 1993.
Added to CLICnet on 10/16/2013


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Notes:

  • DVD-R.
  • Soundtrack in English, portions in Spanish with English subtitles.
  • Guillermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco.
  • Guatinaui performance created by Gullermo Gómez-Peña and Coco Fusco edited by Daisy Wright docents, Paula Killen … [et al.].
  • Color sequences of the display in various museums of performance artists portraying an aboriginal couple from Guatinau, a fictional island off the coast of Mexico, are contrasted with archival footage and still photographs showing various occasions when indigenous persons were put on public display at circuses, sideshows and the like. Emphasis is placed on the response of the people viewing the Guatinaui couple.

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Requested by Myers, S

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