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In this groundbreaking autoethnographic documentary, which embeds authorʼs own life story in the wider cultural, social and political context, the director Marlon E. Fuentes researches his own ancestry. His research takes him to St. Louis World Fair in 1904, where his grandfather was displayed as a part of the Philippine exhibition. The Philippine exhibition was particularly popular with visitors at the end of the Philippine-American war, because it justified the invasion of the Philippines by the American army, supposedly on the mission to spread civilization. Using a combination of documentary and quasi-documentary footage, Fuentes emphasizes that archival materials, considered to be an objective recording of the facts, can easily be misused for ideological purposes. (Ji.hlava International Documentary Film Festival)
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