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Through These Eyes
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Filmmaker Name:
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Charles Laird
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Film Length:
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55 min
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Film Year:
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2003
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Duration:
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46-75 min
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Decade:
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2000s
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Color:
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color
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Region:
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North America
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At the onset of the space race in the 1960s, the U.S. government feared its educational system was slipping behind that of the Soviet Union's. A controversial science initiative, Man: A Course of Study, grew out of this response with the ambitious goal to teach American children what it meant to be human.
At the program's core was a benchmark of visual anthropology, the Netsilik Eskimo series, which captures a year in the life of a small Inuit community on the cusp of contact. Ultimately, Man: A Course of Study created a clash of values that rippled throughout the schools of America and revealed the fragile relationship between politics and educational reform.
Weaving together remarkable archival and contemporary footage, Through These Eyes revisits the politics and controversy of this unprecedented era in American educational reform and offers an historical perspective on the study of anthropology.
SELECTED SCREENINGS & AWARDS
RAI International Festival of Ethnographic Film, London, 2005
American Psychological Association Annual Convention, Washington DC, 2005
Society for Visual Anthropology Film Festival, Washington DC, 2005
Gottingen International Film Festival, Germany, 2006
Days of Ethnographic Film, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 2008
EASA Film, Video & New Media Festival, Slovenia, 2008
SCREENINGS & AWARDS Documentary and Ethnographic Film Festival, Minas Gerais, Brazil, 2004
Montreal World Film Festival, 2004
Save Salt Spring Film Festival, British Columbia, Canada, 2004
Interuniversity Ethnographic Film Festival of Montreal, 2005
Bilan du Film Ethnographique, Paris, 2005
NEAA Ethnographic Film Festival, New York, 2005
Heard Museum Film Festival, Arizona, 2005
NAFA, Sweden, 2005
Through These Eyes
Directed by
Charles Laird
Writing Credits
Charles Laird
Produced by
Graydon McCrea
Bonnie Thompson
Music by
Kait Shane
Emre Unal
Cinematography by
Martin Duckworth
Film Editing by
Paul Mortimer
Production Management
Kelly Isaac
Paul Mortimer
Sound Department
Patrick Butler
Tami Coleman
Steven Corbiere
Cory Gray
Yves St-Jean
Bennett Suba
Terry Woolf
Visual Effects by
Kevin Dryden
Karen McKinnon
Editorial Department
Jeff August
Howard Wirth
Music Department
Arnold Choi
Andy Erickson
Ben Harries
Jasmin Poon
Kait Shane
Emre Unal
Other Crew
Chris Amautinuar
Eric Amautinuar
Claudette Breton
Darin Clausen
Ginette D'Silva
Sarah Hurford
Jennifer Tilden
Bridget Toms
Karen Wyatt
Faye Yoneda
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