Nanook of the North and about Director Robert. Flaherty.

After I watched ‘Nanook of the North’, I searched about director Flaherty. When the golden age of the film has yet to arrive, it has been interesting to work with such dramatic techniques and elements to make the material so interesting and sometimes suggesting interest, tension, and lyrical feelings. It is a work that has already changed in the century, but it is strange that it still gives the feeling of moving to the audience. Flaherty’s work, which can be said to have opened the pavement of documentary, contained people of the North Pole. Their struggle to survive in the cold of the Arctic is dignified and grander than ridiculous. While I searching about that era, many of the movies at that time were travel films. The traveling films at the time were works written in a very Western perspective. It is as if we go on a three-night, four-day trip today to take a picture or video and judge it. It was nothing more than a blog or on Facebook. After half of the last class, a discussion was held in the classroom. The footage of the Eskimos he shot made them look funny. I also remember that there were quite a few words saying that it would be fun for viewers to see these people, and look stupid. The films that were produced at the time were rather judgemental if you look at the life of Flaherty instead of the stories about the lives of white people. He learned to explore from his childhood through his father, admired the secretaries who lived in the unknown and longed for their lives. It was his video work that started with that kind of mind, except that he was told by the professor that he had a child among the women there and received a semi-shock.
I think that on his work, he wanted to communicate with them, to join in life, and to create a work that reflects their point of view. Before taking the picture, he wants like to talk to each other over the head and face to discuss how to film and the film to collaborate with the Eskimo. It seems that they wanted to record their traditional appearance on the film because the traditional appearance would disappear. So, I think Flaherty is more like a historian.