Sami van Ingen

Sami van Ingen
Total Credits at Criticker: 2 (Director), 1 (Writer)
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Polte
Polte (2018) - Short Film
A fractured melodrama, based on damaged frames from the last minutes of the only remaining nitrate reel of the lost feature film Silja - FALLEN ASLEEP WHEN YOUNG (1937) directed by Teuvo Tulio. All screening prints and the negative of the film were destroyed in a 1959 studio fire. A sequence from the middle of the film was found at La Cinémathèque Française in Paris in 2015. (imdb)
Monica in the South Seas
July 1975. Monica Flaherty, daughter of Robert and Francis Flaherty, cinéma vérité pioneer Ricky Leacock and Sarah Hudson – Ricky’s student at MIT – travel to Samoa, to the island of Savai’i. Monica’s aim is to create a perfect sound version of the silent feature film Moana (1926), directed by her parents in her childhood paradise (docpointfestival.fi)