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The Living Stone (1958)
Directed by John Feeney
Documentary · 34m
The Living Stone is a 1958 Canadian short documentary film directed by John Feeney about Inuit art. It shows the inspiration behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film centres on an old legend about the carving of the image of a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Documentary Short.
Cast
Crew
- Director
- John Feeney
- Writer
- John Feeney
- Director of Photography
- Wally Gentleman
- Editor
- John Feeney
- Producer
- Tom Daly
Details
- Release date
- 1958-02-04
- Runtime
- 34m
- Genres
- Documentary
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- Canada
- Production
- ONF | NFB