DOCUMENTARY
TAKKUUK
TAKKUUK IS A UNIQUE DOCUMENTARY JOURNEY INTO the music and stories of indigenous artists across the Arctic regions. CREATED BY CHARLIE MILLER & ZAK NORMAN AND Commissioned by ‘in place of war’ for the earth sonic project, IT WAS COLLABORATIVELY SOUNDTRACKED BETWEEN INDIGENOUS ARTISTS AND ELECTRONIC PRODUCERS BICEP.
CREATING THIS DOCUMENTARY SAW US TRAVELLING ONTO ANCIENT GLACIERS, INTERVIEWING REINDEER HERDERS, SHOOTING FROM THE BACK OF SNOWMOBILES, ARTCIC SEA VESSELS AND DOGSLEDS ALIKE, AND DELVING INTO THE EVER CHANGING LANDSCAPES AND LIVES OF THESE NORTHERLY peoples.
shot across Sábmie IN SWEDEN, Norway and Greenland, A sony burano WAS PAIRED WITH atlas mercury lenses TO CAPTURE THE DOCUMENTARY, AS WELL AS AERIAL AND GROUND CAMERAS EQUIPPED WITH infrared cameras TO HIGHLIGHT THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND CULTURAL CHANGE THROUGH VISUAL MEANS. STILLS CAPTURED WITH FUJIX100V AND SONY.
Soundtrack: bicep (ninja tune)
DOP/director: charlie miller
VISUALS: BLACK BOX ECHO / zak norman
Production company: The mono grande
ADDITIONAL CAMERA, DRONE, SOUND, STILLS AND POST PRODUCTION: Lottie Cripps video