The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt

The Trail to Koskimo: His First Hunt

1976
34m
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Overview

This film chronicles an artistic and personal quest through an assortment of in-camera and optical printing experiments. Shutter effects and swarming dots fragment the filmic surface so the picture oscillates between abstraction and recognition. The soundtrack quotes excerpts from anthropologist Franz Boas’ 1930 text about a Kwakiutl Indian shaman. The story serves as a metaphor for the struggle of the artist practicing a new visual language. In the Boas text, a man relates his learning the ways of a shaman. Doubting the magic in shamanistic practice, he strives to understand traditional methods in order to discover the truth. Though he learns the secrets of his teachers and finds only tricks, he nonetheless becomes a powerful and famous shaman himself. This film is about the desire to master the magic of the image while following a path of doubt and skepticism.

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Status: Released

Language: EN

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Production Information

Production Companies
BB Optics
Production Countries
United States of America

Quick Facts

Release Date January 2, 1976
Status Released
Language EN
IMDb ID tt2033435

Cast

Key Crew

Bill Brand
Director

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