Something smells like fish
For those of you who've never heard of Nanook, Thursday night's screening at the Film Archive is unmissable.
Widely considered the first feature length documentary ever made (shot in 1922) it's an exceptional account of Inuit life on the ice.
Using traditional methods (including killing large fish by biting the back of their heads/necks? whatever you call that bit at the top) and hanging out with his "wives" in the harshest of climes, this snapshot of Nanook's life is even more poignant as he died two years later, lost in a snow storm.
The film later went on to be discredited for "setting-up" traditional hunting methods, raising interesting questions which fit perfectly with the current mediagallery exhibition by Wellington artist Sarah Jane Parton.
She'll be performing a response to the film live with the musical back up of Henderson/Beban/Crewdson
THIS THURSDAY, 7PM, AT THE FILM ARCHIVE
TICKETS $8 / $6
What's the print quality like Anna? I saw it decades ago, but it was a delapidated print. Still fascinating though.
We're showing a 16mm print that is slightly worn with some sparkle. Should be fine and the musical accompaniment will add heaps of atmos anyway.
And I'm very intrigued to see what Sarah Jane Parton comes up with in response to the narration (which was added later). She's a very quirky performer, fantastic live (and eight months pregnant).
Her current show in the mediagallery has a video work of her doing qigong on a trampoline in a pink satin martial arts suit (shot in my garden incidentally) which is hilarious and beautiful and definitely worth a look.
The gallery will be open tonight before the screening so people can have a squiz.
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