Robert Joseph Flaherty
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
Robert Flaherty made this wonderful film of Eskimo (Inuit) life following six years as an Artic explorer for the Canadian Northern Railway. Flaherty seized upon the idea of structuring his movie around characters who reenacted episodes of their lives and participated in the shaping of the film. He was not trained as an anthropologist, but Flaherty wisely guides our discovery of the people and their activities, and ninety years later, Nanook of the...
Publisher
Kanopy Streaming
Pub. Date
2014.
Language
English
Description
The wedding of Palo (Palos Brudefaerd) (1934), Nanook's obvious successor, is the last beautiful work of the famed Danish polar explorer and anthropologist Dr. Knud Rasmussen. Filmed in sound with an Inuit cast from the Angmagssalik district of east Greenland, Palo, like Nanook, documents a vanishing lifestyle and uses Flaherty's devise of an appealing narrative; in this case, a story of two men who desire the same woman as a wife. It is mastered...
Series
Criterion collection volume 33
Publisher
Janus Films
Pub. Date
c1998
Language
English
Description
Documentary on the life of one Eskimo tribe, and their struggle for survival in the vast and inhospitable Arctic.