Attiuk

The people of Unamenshipu La Romaine an Innu community in the CôteNord region of Quebec are seen but not heard in this richly detailed documentary about the rituals surrounding an Innu caribou hunt Released in 1960 its one of 13 titles in Au Pays de NeufveFrance a series of poetic documentary shorts about life along the St Lawrence River Offcamera narration written by Pierre Perrault frames the Innu participants through an ethnographic lens Codirected by René Bonnière and Perrault a founding figure of Quebecs direct cinema movement