The 'documentary' that invented reality TV drama—decades before it was even a thing.
American documentary film-maker George C. Stoney visits the Aran Islands to try and unravel some of the myths surrounding a film that had engrossed him as a youngster - Robert Flaherty's famous documentary "Man of Aran" released in 1934.
Direction
Stoney's obsessive, gentle interrogation of his own hero.
Production
Aran Islands still look like the edge of the world.
Director
James B. Brown
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Flaherty taught the Aran islanders how to hunt basking sharks—skills they'd actually abandoned generations earlier.
Stoney's work essentially invented 'making-of' documentaries as critical essays, not promotional fluff.
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