True North

Name: True North
Director: Isaac Julien
Released: 2004-01-01
Duration: 3 min
Rating: 8.0
Cast: Vanessa Myrie

20040h 3m★ 8.0Dir. Isaac Julien

Loosely inspired by the story of the black American explorer, Matthew Henson (1866-1955) who accompanied Robert Peary and was one of the first people to reach the North Pole, later writing an account of his experience. In this fragmented narrative, Julien contemplates on ideas and histories of the hierarchical as well as in the struggling figure we find a succinct metaphor of endless traversing, symbolizing the voyage of the modern that has to be experienced by others.