Event

Super science documentary films - "Nanook of the North"

Sunday, December 9, 2007 16:00
Redpath Museum 859 rue Sherbrooke Ouest, Montreal, QC, H3A 0C4, CA
(James Flaherty, 1922) Documents a year in the life of Nanook, an Eskimo (Inuit), and his family. Describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. "Nanook of the North" was widely shown and praised as the first full-length anthropological documentary in cinematographic history. The mise-en-scène introduction and post-screening will be led by Bruno Paul Stenson. Free with donation to museum
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