What happens to a beautiful place when its appeal lures tourists in such numbers as to sustain a whole industry of gawkers and gazers? In The Spectacle, idyllic European tourist destinations are documented through exquisite landscape cinematography, yet a droll pall hangs over the panoramas as we watch brightly hued Gore-Tex-clad pilgrims descend upon these places’ natural wonders to pose and preen, and certainly, post. Ethnography meets the Anthropocene in this short, wry essay about the fate of “attractions.”  TM

Q&A following screening.