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A silent essay considers several key details of the production and legacy of Robert Flaherty`s seminal 1922 documentary, "Nanook of the North" (also known as, "A Story Of Life and Love In the Actual Arctic"). Critiquing notions around documentary and realism, the gaze, anthropology and institution, an image by an Inuk artist is discovered “missing” from the Museum of Modern Art (MOMA) collection.

Matthew Lax (b. Baltimore, Maryland, USA) is an artist, filmmaker and writer based in Los Angeles. His film and video work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in film festivals and art spaces including the Viennale (Austria), IHME Contemporary (Helsinki), MIX Brasil (São Paulo) and MIX New York, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA) and the Everson Museum of Art (Syracuse, NY). He has organized curatorial projects with venues including Human Resources (LA), the Echo Park Film Center, Anthology Film Archives (New York, NY), etc. in addition to numerous pop-up exhibitions with various alternative spaces. His writing has appeared in various printed catalogs and publications including the Los Angeles Review of Books (LARB), Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), ArtPractical (San Francisco), and Art Observed (New York).