Nanook of the North Revisited Film Showing with Lecture/Discussion

Film showing with lecture/discussion led by Dr. Gerry Zahavi, Suny Albany, about the controversies around Nanook of the North, a film by Robert Flaherty that sought to document a fading Indigenous culture; Thursday, August 29 beginning at 7:00 pm. The discussion will include a look back at the birth of documentary filmmaking in the 1920s. Selections from the original film and recent colorized release, followed by the full retrospective documentary film about Nanook's production - Nanook Revisited, by Claude Massot, which examines how contemporary Inuit view Flaherty and his work.

Directed by Claude Massot, 1990, 50 mins.

Free admission/Doors open at 6:30