For our Something Wicked DocuFest
2021 we are presenting a special selection of celebrated documentary film-maker
Robert J. Flaherty. The following is a
selected collection of shorts and features made available via online and free
to view. We hope that you enjoy these
films and help us celebrate the achievements of this amazing film-maker and his
films. If you like these films we
encourage you to add them to your personal collection as there have been many
excellent transfers made available via online and physical media.
TITLE: LOUISIANA STORY (1948)
RUN TIME: 1:18
SYNOPSIS:
The idyllic life of a young Cajun boy and his
pet raccoon is disrupted when the tranquility of the bayou is broken by an oil
well drilling near his home.
TITLE: MAN OF ARAN (1934)
RUN TIME: 1:16
SYNOPSIS:
In this blend of documentary and fictional
narrative from pioneering filmmaker Robert Flaherty, the everyday trials of
life on Ireland's unforgiving Aran Islands are captured with attention to
naturalistic beauty and historical detail.
TITLE: MOANA (1926)
RUN TIME: 1:25
SYNOPSIS:
Filmmaker Robert J. Flaherty presents a
docufictional account of a family living in a Samoan village in the early
1920s.
TITLE: NANOOK OF THE NORTH (1922)
RUN TIME: 1:18
SYNOPSI
In
this silent predecessor to the modern documentary, film-maker Robert
J. Flaherty spends one year following the lives of
Nanook and his family, Inuits living in the Arctic Circle.
TITLE: TWENTY-FOUR-DOLLAR-ISLAND (1927)
RUN TIME: 0:12
SYNOPSIS:
In 1626, Dutch traders bought Manhattan for
$24 of beads and gift product. Within 30 years, there were 1,000 residents, and
300 years later, there were 8 million. This film celebrates the muscle, size,
and majesty of Manhattan, starting at the river's edge where a huge-jawed steam
shovel dredges. It's on to an ocean liner, then to a hole in the ground where
men swing pickaxes, sledgehammers, and shovels. The camera then slowly examines
a stately building by the shore. Behind and beside it is the city.
