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Almost Human

(wind blowing) You recall the imageryof Robert Flaherty's "Nanook of the North", the...

(wind blowing) You recall the imagery
of Robert Flaherty's "Nanook of the North", the world's first
feature-length documentary

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(wind blowing)
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You recall the imagery of Robert Flaherty's
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"Nanook of the North",
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the world's first feature-length documentary.
Duration
9 seconds
Views
24
Timestamp in Movie
00:17:13
Uploaded
Jun 18, 2025
Genres
documentary, sci-fi
Production
Bacon Productions,Carlsberg Foundation

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Movie Summary

The award winning Danish director, Jeppe Rønde has invited 10 of the world's foremost scientists - and a single robot. - to zoom out at intergalactic distance and rethink our relationship with technology and investigate in microco...
The opening titles promised to tell the story of - Almost Human 00:07
The opening titles promised to tell the story of
The fearless, lovable, happy-go-lucky Eskimo. - Almost Human 00:04
The fearless, lovable, happy-go-lucky Eskimo.
In Qaanaaq you found four of them yourself. - Almost Human 00:04
In Qaanaaq you found four of them yourself.
As Flaherty followed the great hunter Nanook, - Almost Human 00:06
As Flaherty followed the great hunter Nanook,
Or is it they who are following you? How can you tell? - Almost Human 00:04
Or is it they who are following you? How can you tell?
Is it in honor of your camera that - Almost Human 00:06
Is it in honor of your camera that
What kind of nostalgia is it you feel - Almost Human 00:07
What kind of nostalgia is it you feel
Are you to believe that they are real, authentic, pure? - Almost Human 00:04
Are you to believe that they are real, authentic, pure?
That some parts of the world are still untouched - Almost Human 00:06
That some parts of the world are still untouched
Do you prefer not to see them - Almost Human 00:07
Do you prefer not to see them
Do you prefer not to know that they are as modern as you? - Almost Human 00:05
Do you prefer not to know that they are as modern as you?
Today you call them Inughuit, meaning simply human. - Almost Human 00:05
Today you call them Inughuit, meaning simply human.
You followed the Inughuit hunters to - Almost Human 00:05
You followed the Inughuit hunters to
Flaherty had Nanook hunt with a traditional harpoon, - Almost Human 00:07
Flaherty had Nanook hunt with a traditional harpoon,
He faked the inside of an igloo to be able to film in there. - Almost Human 00:04
He faked the inside of an igloo to be able to film in there.
And his wife, presented as Nyla, the smiling one, - Almost Human 00:07
And his wife, presented as Nyla, the smiling one,
An invention of a place and a people suspended in time? - Almost Human 00:05
An invention of a place and a people suspended in time?
Isolated from modernity, - Almost Human 00:06
Isolated from modernity,
Flaherty defended himself by saying that, - Almost Human 00:06
Flaherty defended himself by saying that,
One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit." - Almost Human 00:15
One often has to distort a thing to catch its true spirit.&q...