The Living Stone
| Movie | |
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| Original title | The Living Stone |
| Country of production | Canada |
| original language | English |
| Publishing year | 1958 |
| length | 33 minutes |
| Rod | |
| Director | John Feeney |
| script | John Feeney |
| production | Tom Daly |
| music | Maurice Blackburn |
| camera | Patrick Carey |
| cut |
Stuart Baker , John Feeney |
| occupation | |
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The Living Stone (German Live rock ) is a Canadian documentary - short film by John Feeney from 1958. Tom Daly , who produced the film, was this for an Oscar nomination.
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During a cold winter evening in an igloo, a stonemason tells the children present stories about the stonemasonry, drawing inspiration from Inuit legends to chisel the image he has in mind in a soapstone pulled from the sea before winter sees, namely that of a caged sea spirit that must now be released. To underpin his story, he shows the attentively listening children this artistically transformed stone. The story told gives the carving a life of its own and gives the figure a personality and a voice that calls for beauty to be hidden.
The story goes back to Inuit stone carvers looking in a stone for the image trapped in it. Once they recognize it, they use various simple tools to remove the parts of the stone that do not belong to the picture in order to reveal what they saw trapped in the rough stone. The growing children are already trying their hand at this art. It is also part of everyday life for the Inuit to hunt seals. A large number of different works are shown.
The families also organize their lives in winter or summer quarters. The fun is not neglected when they organize dance games for young and old among each other. A majority of their revenue achieve the Inuit with their excellent works from stones that bring them to life, concentrating primarily serpentine (snake stone), Steatinit and serpentinite (Serpentinschiefer), less often the very soft steatite come (soapstone or talc) are used.
Production notes, publication
In the spring of 1957, native New Zealander John Feeney planned to make two documentaries, one about Inuit stone carving and one about the community in which people make their lives. Bad weather, among other factors, meant that only the film made by Feeney about the Inuit carvers could be completed. Feeney directed ten NFB productions between 1954 and 1963, mainly focusing on the Inuit of the Canadian Arctic. Two of the films he played a key role received Oscar nominations, alongside this his 1964 film Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak .
The scenes in which sculptures are shown are by Colin Low and Wally Gentleman.
The film is a production of the National Film Board of Canada (NFB). Filming took place in Cape Dorset , Baffin Island with the Inuit stone carvers from Kingait (the Inuit name for Cape Dorset) and Kangiyak (an Inuit village on the Aliulik Peninsula).
The film was presented at the 1959 film festival in Cannes, France .
Award
Nomination for Tom Daly in the category “Best Documentary Short Film” .
However, the award went to Ben Sharpsteen and the film Ama Girls .
Web links
- The Livingstone in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Living Stone see page film affinity (spanish)
Individual evidence
- ↑ The 31st Academy Awards | 1959 see page oscars.org. (English).
- ↑ The Living Stone see page nfb.ca (including the complete original film).
- ↑ The NFB Inuit Film collection see page onf-nfb.gc.ca (English).
- ^ The Living Stone (Johnn Feeney, 1958) see page makeminecriterion.wordpress.com (English).