Yaptik-Hasse

Yaptik-Hasse is one of the younger members of the very large Yaptik family, and also their good spirit. As it is the end of August, the Nenets people begin their usual journey through the ‘middle-world’ between North and South, setting off from their camp in the tundra, on the Yamal peninsula. Filmmaker Edgar Bartenev chooses three different means to tell the story of the breathtaking everyday life of these Siberian nomads: music, intertitles, and a camera. The result is one of the most exciting forms to reanimate the ethnographic genre.