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A smalltime burglar is sucked into the world of one of his victims.

Why do we travel? What do we seek? ONLOOKERS offers a visually striking, immersive meditation on travel and tourism in Laos, reflecting on how we all live as observers. Traversing the country's dusty roads and tranquil rivers, we watch as elaborate painterly tableaus unfold, revealing the whimsical and at times disruptive interweaving of locals and foreigners in rest and play.

Onlookers is a work of video art that features the popular arcade shooter game Big Buck HD Hunter, a hunting simulator. By refusing to play the game as designed (that is, pulling the trigger and killing the animals), the work raises questions about human intervention, environmental utopia, the effects of the gaze, and active participation through looking.

Out drinking one night after a fight with her boyfriend, three men brutally rape Sarah Tobias in a bar while people watch and cheer. District Attorney Kathryn Murphy takes the case; however, she allows the rapists to receive a mild sentence. A distraught Sarah decides to seek punishment for the men who witnessed and encouraged the rape. To get justice, Sarah must take the stand and revisit the night of her attack.