2018 | USA | Documentary

Fabricated in the Actual Arctic (After Nanook)

  • No Dialogue - 3 mins
  • Director | Matthew Lax
  • Writer | Matthew Lax
  • Producer | Matthew Lax

STATUS: Released

This film is currently not available.   

The silent early documentary Nanook of the North (1922) is reenacted and revisited through the context of a missing drawing by an Inuk artist, supposedly depicting the making of the film. The image shows the Inuk people participating in front of and behind the camera in this famously staged film, which raises questions about erasure, representation, and the colonial narratives embedded in early documentary filmmaking.

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