Nanook of the North: Filmic Encounters – Indigenous and Ethnographic Film

Passengerfilms presents a night devoted to the history and future of Indigenous and ethnographic film.

Featuring Robert Flaherty's Nanook of the North (1922), which documents a year in the life of Nanook and his family, Inuit living in the Canadian Arctic. Accompanied by two Latin American indigenous-authored shorts: Mu Drua [Mi Tierra/My Land] (2011), directed by Mileidy Orozco Domicó, and Já me transformei em imagem [I've already become an image] (2008), directed by Zezinho Yube. Introduced and curated by Charlotte Gleghorn (RHUL), with Michelle Raheja (University of California, Riverside) on revisionist approaches to Nanook and Felix Driver (RHUL) on the uses of archival film.