Live Film Score Dec. 22nd, “Nanook Of The North”
12/22 @ 8:00pm /
Winter Solstice Show @ The Silent Theater
(Feat. “Nanook Of The North” W/ Live Score By Brian LeBarton!)
Multi-instrumentalist and electronic music whiz Brian LeBarton, who for years has been the close collaborative partner of one Beck Hansen, and who recently co-composed/recorded the music of Sex Bob-omb (the fake band in Scott Pilgrim Vs. The World) comes to the Cinefamily to bring his unique aural vision to classic films from the silent era, along with special guest Amir Yaghmai from the band Jogger! The second film in LeBarton’s ongoing series of live scores is Robert Flaherty’s controversial Nanook of the North, which is widely considered to be the world’s first feature-length documentary! Flaherty brought years of experience living amongst the Inuit Eskimos to his portrait of a hunter eking out a calm, placid life amongst some of the harshest landscapes Man has ever encountered. Amongst images of Nanook and his tribe’s daily activities (relevatory stuff to ‘20s audiences from more “tropical” climates), Flaherty also gives us charming, slightly kooky asides, such as the superbly silly moment when Nanook ponders the alien object of a phonograph record. It’s true that much of Nanook’s action was staged for the camera, but its groundbreaking legacy lives on in almost every single doc — despite all protestations of varying “truthfulness” as they blur the lines between vérité and narrative — to follow.
Nanook of the North Dir. Robert Flaherty, 1922, digital presentation, 79 min.
Tickets – $12/free for members
