DIRECTOR: Robert Flaherty Robert Flaherty is often proclaimed one of the founding fathers of documentary film. Flaherty indirectly became part of the mythology of the burgeoning world-wide documentary movement of the 1930s when John Grierson was said to have originated the usage of the term 'documentary' in relation to film when he wrote, "of course, Moana [1926] being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value.” In recent times Flaherty's oeuvre has been unfairly caught up in the ongoing debates about the ethnographic worth of his early pre-modern films Nanook of the North (1921), Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age (1926) and Man of Aran (1934). FILM: NANOOK OF THE NORTH was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989. A silent film. This classic film by Robert Flaherty, shot in 1922, documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Inuit hunter and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region. Without the use of dialogue, this piece describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. NANOOK OF THE NORTH was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.
片名：《北方的纳努克》
国家：美国
出品：1922年
时长： 79Min
导演：罗伯特 弗拉哈迪
导演介绍：罗伯特·弗拉哈迪，1884年2月16日，出生于美国密歇根铁山脚下。这个原籍爱尔兰的电影巨人在摄制影片以前，曾经亲自在加拿大北部从事狩猎、探险和地质勘探的工作。终其一生他都在用浪漫主义的视角和探险家的品性开掘着纪录片艺术。1922年，他的代表作《北方的纳努克》完成并公映，法国的评论家将其与古希腊戏剧相提并论。弗拉哈迪由此被尊称为真正的“纪录电影之父”。 主要作品：《北方纳努克》、《亚兰岛人》、《路易斯安娜州的故事》。
影片介绍：本片是根据弗拉哈迪的亲身经历改编，影片完美地再现了哈里森港爱斯基摩人聚居地真实的生活场景，用梭标猎杀北极熊、生食海豹……这些早已被我们遗忘的茹毛饮血式的生存方式重新再现银幕，它的意义不仅仅只在于人类学上，更让我们找回祖先的脉搏。1922年6月11日《北方纳努克》在纽约首都剧场公映，一炮走红，观众如潮，一位评论家将《北方纳努克》比作古希腊悲剧。《北方纳努克》是弗拉哈迪三次北极探险的结晶，它不仅开创了用影像记录社会的人类学纪录片类型，也为记录电影提供了一种至今仍在使用的拍摄模式。《北方纳努克》是世界记录电影史光辉的起点。
TITLE:Nanook of The North
Country:U,S.A
Year:1922
Length:79mins
Director: Robert Flaherty
DIRECTOR: Robert Flaherty Robert Flaherty is often proclaimed one of the founding fathers of documentary film. Flaherty indirectly became part of the mythology of the burgeoning world-wide documentary movement of the 1930s when John Grierson was said to have originated the usage of the term 'documentary' in relation to film when he wrote, "of course, Moana [1926] being a visual account of events in the daily life of a Polynesian youth and his family, has documentary value.”
In recent times Flaherty's oeuvre has been unfairly caught up in the ongoing debates about the ethnographic worth of his early pre-modern films Nanook of the North (1921), Moana: A Romance of the Golden Age (1926) and Man of Aran (1934).
FILM: NANOOK OF THE NORTH was an original selection to the Library of Congress National Film Registry in 1989. A silent film. This classic film by Robert Flaherty, shot in 1922, documents one year in the life of Nanook, an Inuit hunter and his family as they struggle to survive in the harsh conditions of Canada's Hudson Bay region. Without the use of dialogue, this piece describes the trading, hunting, fishing and migrations of a group barely touched by industrial technology. NANOOK OF THE NORTH was widely shown and praised as the first full-length, anthropological documentary in cinematographic history.