Audio: Russian / Chukchi Subtitles: English Owner: HIGH LATITUDES LTD | Aleksei Vakhrushev ________________________ https://www.facebook.com/TheTundraBook http://www.dokweb.net/en/documentary-network/articles/film-of-the-week-the-tundra-book.-a-tale-of-vukvukai-the-little-rock-2117/ Aleksei Vakhrushev's The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock captures in rich detail the seasonal cycle in the life of a Chukchi tribe. Chapter titles, reindeer herding, playing and feasting may seem like a wishful throwback to a simpler time, yet the tribe's patriarch Vukvukai reminds us at the end that Chukchi traditions are being crushed and Chukchi children, one by one, lost to another culture. Aleksei Vakhrushev made his award-winning The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock as a National Geographic's All Roads Seed Grant recipient. A few days before the film's sold-out screenings at Hot Docs, Mr Vakhrushev won the NIKA Award for the 2011 Best Documentary Film presented by the National Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences of Russia. At the beginning of May, The Tundra Book was also screened at Documenta Madrid. The Tundra Book is permeated with an air of cultural and filmmaking ease, much of it owing to the fact that Mr Vakrushev was born in the Chukchi regional capital of Anadyr. With an emphatic "Let them live!", the filmmaker gave the film's campaign issue a strong voice in his thank you speech at the NIKA gala when he called for the closure of boarding schools that separate Chukchi children from their families and from tribal traditions that seem destined to dwindle away with the death of the tribe's elders. In addition to its accomplishments, the film also travels the world's most prestigious film festivals as part of the East Silver Caravan. Zdeněk Blaha of East Silver also heaps praise on the film: "Nature and ethnographic films are a very specific documentary genre not often associated with creative author-driven cinema. Aleksei Vakhrushev's The Tundra Book. A Tale of Vukvukai, the Little Rock is a very ambitious film though. This story of the nomadic Chukchi tribe and its elder Vukvukai who live in the Arctic area of Chukotka is an impressive dialogue with early cinema and the work of Robert Flaherty, namely his Nanook of the North. Vakhrushev's depiction of people living in harsh conditions and the structure of his film, divided into several chapters describing various parts of the tribe's life, are reminiscent of this pioneer documentarian. With stunning images of the frozen land, The Tundra Book is a poetic documentary about a vanishing tribe and its traditions." ________________________ Disclaimer: I do NOT OWN the rights to this documentary. All rights belong to their respective owners! This documentary was uploaded with entirely educational purpose!

• published: 03 Sep 2013
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