Papua New Guinean cinema is rare on the world stage, with most filmmaking historically tied to documentary and ethnographic work produced during the Australian colonial period. The Metal Foundry (1984) represents the kind of curio that slips through the cracks of mainstream film culture. See what Macca made of it below.
Rating: 3.0★
There is a particular kind of documentary that turns the camera not on its ostensible subject but on the people doing the looking, and Cannibal Tours (1988) is one of the more bracingly honest examples of the form. Directed by Australian filmmaker Dennis O'Rourke, the film accompanies a
Genre Documentary
★ — The Metal Foundry (1984)
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