Preceded by short: Headhunters (Teresa Svoboda, U.S., 1992). A mother takes her son to New Guinea to procure his first shrunken head, a necessary accoutrement for any rite of passage. (15 mins) Complexion doesn't guarantee a place in a culture. In New View, New Eyes, Gitanjali, an Indo-Canadian, travels to India to meet her father's family. She begins as an encumbered tourist, thoroughly addled by the exoticized images that accompany her. "Everything I know about this place, I learned somewhere else," she admits. The irony of her familial pilgrimage is deepened by her mixed status, one who appears to be of a place but isn't. She does not know the customs, the greetings, the taboos, yet her ethnic demeanor assumes intimate knowledge of the culture. New View, New Eyes lyrically tracks Gitanjali's politicization as she pierces the surface of the touristic to see a hidden history of colonial exploitation. Using a palette of poetic techniques, Gitanjali expropriates the exotic as a vision of clarity rather than possession.-Steve Seid (50 mins)