Ikland

Name: Ikland
Genre: Adventure, Documentary
Released: June 15, 2012
Duration: 96 min

2012

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Spectacle Films | Release Date: June 15, 2012 | Not Rated

Summary: The Ik were described as sadists who starved their own children
and crapped in front of each others’ homes for fun. They were reviled
as the worst and most depraved beings on Earth, and it was recommended that their culture be destroyed for its own good. No one has dared to film them in the 40 years since they were first studied. IklandThe Ik were described as sadists who starved their own children
and crapped in front of each others’ homes for fun. They were reviled
as the worst and most depraved beings on Earth, and it was recommended
that their culture be destroyed for its own good. No one has dared to
film them in the 40 years since they were first studied. Ikland recounts a quest to re-connect with a lost corner of humanity. For producer Cevin Soling, they represented the last outpost of imagination in a world devoid of myth. Soling and his crew risked
their lives, by traveling through war-ravaged northern Uganda to reach
them. Their experience was alien and surreal in ways only Jonathan Swift might have imagined. (Spectacle Films)… Expand

Director: Cevin D. Soling and David Hilbert

Genre(s): Adventure, Documentary

Rating: Not Rated

Runtime: 96 min

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Jeannette Catsoulis

Jun 14, 2012

Narrating as he goes, his humor as warm and dry as the ground beneath his feet, Mr. Soling is an unconventional explorer whose interactions with the long-suffering Ik - the women quiet and watchful, the men seamed and talkative - are politely deferential. He's clearly not there to engage in scientific study; he's simply reaching out across continents on a hunch that even eminent scientists can get it wrong. Read full review

Ronnie Scheib

Jun 14, 2012

Though generally engrossing, Ikland's multiscreen displays and cross-cultural theatrical experiments prove more distracting than effective. Read full review

Nick Schager

Jun 13, 2012

Soling and co-director David Hilbert divide their screen into multiple visual quadrants, an aesthetic strategy that soon becomes a wearisome affectation that's barely mitigated by their refusal to romanticize the landscape or soft-pedal the hazardous hardships of Ik life. Read full review

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