Primitive Ignorant

Austrian documentary filmmaker Nikolaus Geyrhalter (Our Daily Bread) marked the turn of the century with this yearlong project visiting rural communities in the most remote places across the globe. Mounting the epic filmic trek in the year 2000, Geyrhalter's team sought to find people who were untouched by the millennium hysteria of the day. Time seems to stand still in some of the places they visit but their film is in no way a portrait of primitive cultures. Elsewhere is a testament to the human spirit and an ennobling witnessing of the salt-of-the-earth people we never hear about.