Silents
The first documentaries — Flaherty in the Arctic, Vertov in Moscow, and what it meant to point a camera at the world before sync sound.
A story of life and love in the actual Arctic.
Pathé release poster, Nanook of the North, 1922
Everything in Silents
- Flaherty at the Ice HoleThe first documentary was also the first argument about what a documentary could be: Flaherty's Nanook of the North staged the life it claimed to show.
- Vertov's City, Shot in ThreeThe Composite City
- When the Igloo Had No Fourth WallDocumentary's Original Bargain, Made in the Arctic Cold