This review of Milko Lazarov’s film Ága makes it sound pretty offensive. A film about an Inuit couple, where the man is named “Nanook,” is a “paean to a dying culture.” Sounds more like Edward “Vanishing Race” Curtis than Robert Flaherty…https://variety.com/2018/film/reviews/aga-review-berlinale-2018-1202709567/ …
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Ironic appropriation of indigenous culture to perpetuate tired 19th century tropes such as the "vanishing race" is also not OK at a time that indigenous people are at pains to point out that they and their cultures are still very much alive.
I think there are countless unpredictable ways in which a Sakha character in a fiction might come to identify w/ the name 'Nanook', some of which are conceivably OK. A lot depends on what the name means to the character.
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Sure. But the history of the representation of indigenous peoples in film does not give one hope… I'm showing this in class tomorrow:http://www.pbs.org/independentlens/films/reel-injun/ …
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Now I'm reading all I can about Aga. The director is Bulgarian, & Bulgarian media sources also identify the protagonists as 'Eskimos'. The trailer is definitely in Sakha. The film seems light on irony, & big on beauty.http://www.abusdecine.com/critique/aga
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