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ONLOOKERS

A film by Kimi Takesue

ONLOOKERS offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play. Drawn to spectacle, tourists swarm to magnificent Buddhist temples, the ordered rituals of monks, and sites of dazzling natural beauty, then recede like a passing tide, leaving Laotians to continue with their daily lives.

ONLOOKERS transports viewers on a sensorial journey of deep looking and listening, inviting audiences to reflect on their own modes of tourism, while asking the looming existential questions: Why do we travel? What do we seek?

CREDITS

Director/Producer: Kimi Takesue

Co-Producers: Richard Beenen

Sophie Luo

Cinematographer/ Sound /Editor: Kimi Takesue

Consulting Producers: Sara Archambault

Karin Chien

Colorist: Chris DiBerardino

Re-recording Sound Mixer: Tom Efinger

Sound Editor: Abigail Savage

Audio Post Facility: Red Hook Post

Post Production Picture Finishing: Postworks, NY

Postworks Account Executive: Pete Olshansky

Postworks Finishing Producer: Patriciana Tenicela

Publicist Sylvia Savadjian

Closed Captions: Cheryl Green