Still from Nanook of the North, 1922 Scenes apparently showing the inside of an igloo were staged, out of necessity as the lighting needed would have melted the walls. A cutaway igloo was used to ...

“Nanook of the North” portrays the life of an Inuk hunter ... to history and antiquity”, says Mr Piron. In one notorious scene, Nanook is baffled by a phonograph and bites down on the ...

But the discussion goes back nearly a century, to the 1922 documentary and sociology-class staple Nanook Of The North, a silent ... elements and staged scenes. Which, strange as it may seem ...

Seeing "Nanook of the North" a week ago at the Toronto Film Festival ... in which the mate of the walrus joins the battle. Such scenes simplify Inuit life to its most basic reality: In this ...

Robert J. Flaherty is sometimes regarded as the father of the documentary thanks to the 1922 silent film Nanook Of The North, which has just been re-released in a restored version. An explorer and ...

you know that one of the inspirations for the script by director Lazarov and Simeon Ventsislavov is Robert Flaherty’s landmark 1922 ethnographic documentary “Nanook of the North.” ...

But Nanook of the North represents another kind of filmic truth: an artist and explorer’s desire to understand a way of life among a specific group of people and to capture some version of that ...

In conjunction with her exhibition Bright Light Sarah Jane Parton presents Nanook of the North, Robert Flaherty's classic 1922 film with live performance by herself and musical accompaniment by ...