Blunden Harbour
Film et Vidéo
- Auteurs : Gardner Robert (1925-....) ;
- Editeurs : Watertown Documentary Educational Resources [éd., distrib.] ;
- Date d'édition : 2005
- Sujets : Films documentaires -- Amérique du Nord, Films ethnographiques, Amérique du Nord
- Langue(s) : Nord-amérindiennes, langues, Anglais
- Description matérielle : 1 DVD vidéo monoface simple couche (22 min), : N. et b.
- Pays de publication : États-Unis
Notes
Film en version originale en anglais et kwakiutl.
Résumé
A glance at the lives of the Kwakiutl indiands and their livelihood of fishing ans gathering. “In the middle of the twentieth century, Blunden Harbour was a small village on the coast of Vancouver Island in British Colombia inhabited by a handful of impoverished Kwakiutl Indians who gained their meagre livelihood from fishing and gathering...It is a beginner's attempt to impart the rhythm and atmostphere of a place and a people.” - Robert Gardner. Robert Gardner, then a graduate student of Anthropology at the University of Washington in Seattle, went to Blunden Harbour to research a major film project on the Kwakiutl about whom Ruth Benedict had written so eloquently. The larger work was never done and this small film remains one of the few authentic accounts of this once majestic people. Gently paced to capture the essence of life in this forgotten community, the film relies on an observational style and compelling visuals to tell the story.