2025-04-19

Death is on the horizon of all life, and yet we know nothing about it and can say nothing about it. We can only try to capture a few reflections of it through the mirror we hold up to it: myths, rituals, dances... which then become places where connections with the unspeakable are established.

Robert Peary, an American explorer, believed over 100 years ago that the only way for a human to reach the North Pole would be to have children with Inuit to create a superrace that would combine Eskimo strength with Western foresight. Following in the footsteps of this theory, this cinematic essay sets out in search of this "superrace."