‘Amazomania’ Reexamines a Decades-Old Film About the First Contact Made With the Korubo Tribe in Brazil and the “White Man’s Gaze”
A hazardous expedition to the Amazon rainforest in Brazil, filmed in 1996, becomes a cultural and moral minefield in Amazomania, a thought-provoking documentary in which Swedish director Nathan Grossman (I Am Greta, Climate in Therapy) explores the white man’s gaze and turns the camera on colonial legacy and the film itself. The doc, world premiering…