We can get an impression of a place that we move through as a tourist; though of course that is always mediated by the fact that we are a tourist, and actually living in a place, learning and becoming a part of its daily rhythms would make us understand it differently. Arguably it could take years to understand the spirit of a location, knowing the stories of the land and the people of those stories. Indigenous Canadian filmmaker Darlene Naponse has told stories through different modes, first a character study in Falls Around Her, then an experimental end-of-the-world love story in Stellar (a criminally underseen film). Now, she turns her distinctive eye to documentary, in Aki. But as fits with that distinction, she takes us on a journey through...
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