Åpningsfilm / Opening movie

NANOOK OF THE NORTH – A STORY OF LIFE AND LOVE IN THE ACTUAL ARCTIC

Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Comock, Allegoo – en Inuit-familie som bor i Hudson Bay-området i Canada, uten et tre i sikte. Den arktiske naturen framstår som både nådeløs og vakker. Filmskaper Robert J. Flaherty forteller denne gripende historie om menneskene, om livet, om kjærligheten med stor varme og en god del humor. Dette forklarer nok hvorfor filmen ble en kjempesuksess over hele verden da den kom på kino i 1922: Alle lurte på hvordan livet utartet seg i iglooen til Nanook og familien.

Dette er en flott filmopplevelse for hele familien – ikke minst når den presenteres med magisk musikk fremført av Matti Bye Ensemble fra Stockholm. Et bestillingsverk til Tromsø Internasjonale Filmfestivals 20 års jubileum i 2010, denne musikken hadde sin urpremiere i forbindelse med utevisning på TIFFs snølerret på Stortorget i Tromsø. Vi kan love en uforglemmelig forestilling i Longyearbyen Kulturhus.


NANOOK OF THE NORTH – A STORY OF LIFE AND LOVE IN THE ACTUAL ARCTIC

USA/FRANKRIKE, 1922
DIRECTOR: Robert J. Flaherty
SCREENPLAY: Robert J. Flaherty
CINEMATOGRAPHY: Robert J. Flaherty
CAST: Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Comock, Allegoo
RUNNING TIME: 1h 19m

NANOOK OF THE NORTH is the story of Nanook, Nyla, Cunayou, Comock – an Inuit family living in the Hudson Bay area of Canada. The climate is harsh, and the question of daily survival is their main concern. With great sympathy filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty tells a gripping story about the people, their lives, about love.

The film was an enormous success in movie theaters all over the world when it opened in 1922. The magnificent, austere landscape of snow and ice, combined with great camera work (groundbreaking at the time) and the warm, humoristic story, makes NANOOK OF THE NORTH a wonderful film experience for all ages. With live accompaniment by Matti Bye Ensemble, it is transformed into an amazing experience. The music for NANOOK OF THE NORTH was commissioned by the Tromsø International Film Festival, and had its world premiere at the festival in 2010 at an outdoor screening on the Town Square, on the festival’s snow screen.

DIRECTOR
Robert J. Flaherty (1884 – 1951) is often proclaimed to be one of the founding fathers of documentary film, and NANOOK OF THE NORTH is often referred to as the first feature-length documentary film. In fact, many of the scenes in NANOOK are staged, and reflect a traditional lifestyle that already had been abandoned at the time of shooting, but this became the starting point for an ongoing discussion of the question of authenticity vs. falsehood in documentary filmmaking.

FILMOGRAPHY (selected)
Moana 1926
Man of Aran 1934
Louisiana Story 1948

MUSIC
Matti Bye (born 1966) is widely considered to be one of Sweden’s most important composers of film scores. He won the Golden Beetle (the Swedish Oscar) for his score for Jan Troell’s film Everlasting Moments, Sweden’s 2009 submission to the Academy Awards.

He has gained international recognition for his innovative scores for Swedish silent film classics. Alone and with his ensemble, he has performed all over the world – the Pordenone and Bologna silent film festivals in Italy, at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA in New York City) and most recently at the San Francisco Silent Film Festival and Strasbourg European Fantasy Film Festival in France. Bye’s music is magical, haunting, and unforgettable. The ensemble consists of Matti Bye, Kristian Holmgren, Mattias Olsson, Henrik Olsson and Leo Svensson.

Kinoen fredag kl. 18.00 / The movie theatre friday 18:00