Camera Trap
The Porcupine Caribou herd, one of the largest in North America, faces an uncertain future due to climate change, industrial development, and political tensions. The Gwich'in people, who have relied on the herd for generations, see their future at risk and call for global attention. Peter Mather, a teacher and aspiring photographer, began his career in Old Crow, where he became passionate about the caribou and the people tied to them. He sets out to document the herd's migrations and its importance to northern communities, aiming to capture one iconic shot that will inspire others to protect it.
| Director | Marty O’Brien |
| Actor | Vivian Belik |
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Photography plays a key role in Australian-Yukoner Marty O’Brien’s, Camera Trap. This 30 minute film follows Peter Mather, a wildlife photographer betting his life savings and personal safety to snap an extremely specific and all too elusive photo of a caribou herd on their long land migration (an image that incidentally echos the lines of gold prospectors scaling the Chilkoot Trail mountain pass during the Klondike gold rush).
Ultimately, documenting Peter's endeavour was a way, for the filmmaker, to question what lies behind such an obsessive trip in one of the most remote places in the country and the answer he found was something most Yukoners could relate with: a story. Peter, by wanting to capture the missing picture within his Caribou People photo series, has created a story of his own, a narrative structure around which he could anchor his life and his passion for photography. Very much like the gold prospectors of the olden days.
Otherwise, how else would such extreme trips be made? It's those trips, made by passionate people driven by stories (partly of gold, wealth and glory – sure) , that eventually gave way to what the Yukon is today.
Vivian Belik
Guest curator
Hot Docs, Available Light Film Festival
Jason Todd
Artistic Director
Tënk
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Français
26 mn
Language: Français
Subtitles: Français -
English
26 mn
Language: English
- Année 2017
- Pays Canada
- Durée 26
- Producteur Shot in the Dark Film Productions, Midnight Light Media
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court An aspiring wilderness photographer tries to capture the one perfect shot to tell the story of the Porcupine Caribou herd and the greatest land migration on earth.
- Mention festival Best Newcomer Film · International Wildlife Film Festival 2018
Photography plays a key role in Australian-Yukoner Marty O’Brien’s, Camera Trap. This 30 minute film follows Peter Mather, a wildlife photographer betting his life savings and personal safety to snap an extremely specific and all too elusive photo of a caribou herd on their long land migration (an image that incidentally echos the lines of gold prospectors scaling the Chilkoot Trail mountain pass during the Klondike gold rush).
Ultimately, documenting Peter's endeavour was a way, for the filmmaker, to question what lies behind such an obsessive trip in one of the most remote places in the country and the answer he found was something most Yukoners could relate with: a story. Peter, by wanting to capture the missing picture within his Caribou People photo series, has created a story of his own, a narrative structure around which he could anchor his life and his passion for photography. Very much like the gold prospectors of the olden days.
Otherwise, how else would such extreme trips be made? It's those trips, made by passionate people driven by stories (partly of gold, wealth and glory – sure) , that eventually gave way to what the Yukon is today.
Vivian Belik
Guest curator
Hot Docs, Available Light Film Festival
Jason Todd
Artistic Director
Tënk
-
Français
Duration: 26 minutesLanguage: Français
Subtitles: Français26 mn -
English
Duration: 26 minutesLanguage: English26 mn
- Année 2017
- Pays Canada
- Durée 26
- Producteur Shot in the Dark Film Productions, Midnight Light Media
- Langue English
- Sous-titres French
- Résumé court An aspiring wilderness photographer tries to capture the one perfect shot to tell the story of the Porcupine Caribou herd and the greatest land migration on earth.
- Mention festival Best Newcomer Film · International Wildlife Film Festival 2018
