We recently watched Nanook of the North (1922) in my cinema major and I loved it. Partly because I am always hot when I sleep and sleeping in an igloo would be ideal, but mainly because I was so fascinated by the Inuit people and how someone in the early 1920’s could film such a thing. Although the film followed the daily life of Nanook, a father Eskimo and ‘the greatest hunter’, it didn’t really have a narrative which led me to believe it felt quite experimental. There definitely was meaning insinuated with every carefully planned shot however there wasn’t a plot. There is a part of the film where Nanook is presented with a record and a phonograph that plays the recordings of a person’s voice. Nanook picks up the record and bites it. He tastes it. This really struck me as defining the cultural difference between the inuit people and westernised culture. Many people would probably see this as the difference between primitive and civilisation, however if we tried to survive in their culture we probably couldn’t as we aren’t aware of danger as they are. They check everything before they trust it because that is what they have come to know, if it is foreign it can’t be trusted.