Ikland (2012)
1h 36m
Running Time
June 15, 2012Release Date
Plot.
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. Ikland recounts a quest to re-connect with a lost corner of humanity. For director Cevin Soling, they represented the last outpost of imagination in a world devoid of myth. He risked his life, and the lives of his crew, by traveling through war-ravaged northern Uganda to reach them. Their experience was alien and surreal in ways only Jonathan Swift might have imagined.
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Cast & Crew.
Cevin D. Soling
Writer / Director
David Hilbert
Director
Details.
Wiki.
Ikland is a 2011 documentary film about a journey through the mountains of northeastern Uganda, along the Kenyan border, toward an encounter with the Ik. Ikland was produced by Cevin Soling, and directed by Soling and Hilbert David.
The Ik were described in anthropologist Colin Turnbull's 1972 work The Mountain People as callous and indifferent. Ikland follows the documentary makers as they meet with the Ik, and revisits Turnbull's description in the context of local circumstances.