I Am – A Film About the Art of People Living in the Tundra: Prehistory and Encounter
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I Am – A Film About the Art of People Living in the Tundra: Prehistory and Encounter

DirectorMarkku Lehmuskallio

10.0 / 10
1992
112 min

A close and passionate look at the art of arctic peoples from the earliest findings to the beginning of the 20th century. “There are no talking heads, there is no dramatic lighting or sharp focus in these two long movies. Rather, each object is lovingly filmed, as if inviting the artwork to converse with us. Lehmuskallio has discovered how to let his camera speak to the art, and how to let the art reply, and thereby this northern art can speak with us as well.” (Kathleen Osgood, in Uralic Imaginations on Film)

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