Date: 21 May 2006
Location: Watershed
Time: 14:00

Dir: Robert Flaherty 1922 USA/ France 79mins

In partnership with The Festival Of Ideas and Watershed, Bristol Silents present Flaherty's best known classic silent documentary accompanied by the world premiere of a new semi-improvised score.

Sadly due to illness the Shrine Synchrosytem will now not be accompanying this event live. Silent film maestro Neil Brand, one of the finest silent film musicians in the world will now be providing live piano accompaniment.

Nanook of the North is a beautifully filmed, simple account of a few weeks in the life of Nanook, an Inuit living east of the Hudson Bay, and his family. Today the film is hailed as a cinematic milestone of silentcinema.
Robert Flaherty distinguishes himself as a gifted documentary filmmaker, capable of capturing effective shots that are both action-packed and educational and a masterful storyteller.

Plus: Melanie McGrath, author of the forthcoming The Long Exile: A True Story of Deception and Survival Amongst The Inuit of The Canadian Arctic tells the chilling story of what happened after the film with the death of Nanook and the story of the illegitimate son of Robert Flaherty, who having grown up Inuit, was forcibly resettled in 1953 to what was falsely described as an Arctic Eden.

Fee: £6.00 full /£4.50 concs and Bristol Silents members
(Join Bristol Silents and save money on events)

See more content about other events in the Exclusive Content Area >>