Faces of the Wilderness

A film by Tiia Grøn,
Country: Finland,
Duration: 31min,
Language: Finnish,
Subtitles: English,
Year: 2016

On a road less journey, through the barren lands in Finnish Lapland, the traveler can find shelter and companions to whom to share their story. The film is situated by a small wilderness hut and its surrounding landscape. Through meetings with people that roam the area in different ways, we learn about the character of the place ascribed by the people who dwell in it. The wilderness affords different experiences to the different groups that use it, and sometimes their wishes might be contradictory.
Is this wilderness as empty and isolated as it might seem and why do people find this place so special?

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Siberia Through Siberian Eyes

A film by Mark Badger, Asen Balicki,
Country: Russia,
Duration: 51min,
Language: Russian,
Subtitles: English,
Year: 1992

A Visual Anthropology training seminar for a group of native-Siberian cultural activists was established in the village of Kazim (northwest Siberia) where the Khanty inhabitants are attempting to re-establish their ethnic identity which was suppressed during the Soviet policy of centralization. The resulting video was edited from the films produced by the students during their training and broadcast as a television program in Siberia, Canada, and the US.

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