Below is the trailer for the new documenatry Ikland directed by the filmmaking team of Cevin Soling and David Hilbert, which is soon to be released on DVD (both standard and Blu-ray) and which, in effect, puts right a lie that had been perpetrated years ago. In 1972 anthropologist Colin Turnbull investigated the isolated Ugandan tribe the Ik, whom he later wrote about and described as "the worst people in the world." He also stated they were "wholly evil without compassion even for their own children." Some 27 years later, Soling (who read Turnbull's book in the 7th grade) and Hilbert traveled to Uganda to find out the truth, and instead...
- 8/25/2012
- by Sergio
- ShadowAndAct
A remarkable work of indie craftsmanship. The forgotten people who point the way to the forgotten side of the Western world. Welcome to Ikland, the world of the Ik. The Ik of Northern Uganda were studied twice; the first time by prestigious British anthropologist ColinTurnbull and the second time was by film makers David Hilbert, Cevin D. Soling and the rest of their merry crew. Hilbert is the director and editor .Ikland., which documents Cevin Soling.s trip to northern Uganda to rediscover the lost tribe. Actually, they were not so much lost, as ignored. In the seventh grade, Soling.s junior high school class was given a reading assignment on the Iks. The assignment was based on Turnbull.s accounts that described...
- 7/2/2012
- by Ron Wilkinson
- Monsters and Critics
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