Author Archives: nsabich

Nanook of the North was filmed from 1920-1921 in Port Harrison, Northern Quebec by Robert Joseph Flaherty.  This was the first successful documentary ever made, and was a true benchmark for ethnographic film.  Robert Flaherty brought and entirely unknown culture to … Continue reading →

  From the New York Times: He crossed the Atlantic because it was there, and the Pacific because it was also there.  He made both crossings in a rowboat because it, too, was there, and because the lure of sea, … Continue reading →

It’s a good thing to laugh:

Power.  Beauty.

Sorrow in a song.