Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos Screening III: Rediscovering the Arctic Archive II

• Event Date: Saturday, August 29, 2015
• Time: 3:00 pm–4:00 pm (CDT)
• Location: Spurlock Museum, 600 S. Gregory St., Urbana, IL
• Cost: Free Admission

• Film

Arctic Cinemas and the Documentary Ethos examines documentary cinema as a key to contextualizing environmental, indigenous, political, cultural, sociological and ethnographic understandings of the Arctic. This event is the first major international conference to address the Arctic Documentary tradition.

Polar Life (Graeme Ferguson, Canada, 1967) 17 min. Introduction, Presentation, and Q&A with Monika Kin Gagnon

Polar Life began as an eleven-screen film shown at Montreal's Expo '67, documenting both the Arctic and Antarctic, and lives of the Inuit, Sámi, and the Northern inhabitants of Alaska, Scandinavia and Siberia. After his experiences making the film, Graeme Ferguson went on to develop IMAX. Unseen for almost 40 years, and recently restored as a three-channel work by La cinémathèque québécoise and The National Film Board of Canada/Office national du film, Polar Life stands as one of the first transnational circumpolar films, and a key early work of 'expanded cinema'.