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Film

Moana - L'ultimo Eden

Moana

In 1926, after his experimental films, Flaherty went back to the documentary, with a big studio like Paramount behind him. He came up with the idea for Moana together with his friend Frederick J. O’Brien. The two stayed in the village of Safune, on the island of Savaii (western Samoa), looking for primitive environments that were interesting from an ethnological point of view. Here too (as in Nanook before it), Flaherty refused the idea of an already-organized story, in favor of the place's alluring reality. He figured that a too well-defined plot would inhibit the descriptive power of the camera.

Even though the film is based on (as in his feature films to come) a love story between two young Maori, innovative camera work avoids all emphasis on the two, so that even during love scenes, it's as if the characters have been plucked out of scenes from their own personal development.

Flaherty aims to show us that even a community like the Maori possesses a cultural tradition that is the product of reason and not only impulse, thus contrasting the most common western perceptions in vogue at that time. He describes their skills: fishing, organizing the harvest, craftsmanship, trade. He uses a similar technique when focusing on exterior aspects, people's homes, figurative arts, games.

The natural universe is documented by an ever-moving camera and a vision interested in everything in its path. People and their lives are shown for what they are: authentic existences, rife with natural needs, primary needs, and their struggle for survival.

Edizione 2001
Retospettiva Robert J. Flaherty

DOCUMENTARY
United States , 1926, 85'

REGIA/DIRECTOR
Robert J. Flaherty

TAGS:
Geographic Areas And People, Traditions