CinemaOSMovie · 1967 · 0h 18m

Polar Life

Cinema Expo 67

Documentary

Polar Life’s novelty was its theatre, with the audience seated on a central rotating turntable in the middle of eleven fixed screens. Viewers have described the intricate juxtaposition of screen images and narration and the complex relationship created between moving spectators and multiple screens. Documentation images and scripts of the bilingual narration by Lise Payette and Patrick Watson show elaborate temporal and spatial representations of the Arctic and Antarctic regions: the Inuit in daily activities in the Canadian North; other northern peoples of Alaska, Lapland, and Siberia; and settlers from the South, scientists, explorers, and other inhabitants of the landscape, including reindeer, bears, and birds. Archival film footage of early northern explorers, combined with newly shot documentary footage, was edited across the various screens to create spatial relationships that are sometimes coherent, sometimes fragmented.

Directed byGraeme Ferguson

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Status
Released
Runtime
0h 18m
Language
EN
Released
April 22, 1967

Featuring

Cast & crew

2 credited
Starring

Lise Payette

narrator

Patrick Watson

narrator

Creative team
Directed by
Graeme Ferguson
Produced by
Graeme Ferguson

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