A Farewell Chronicle

The bitter closing chapter of the Nenets trilogy sees Lehmuskallio find a new narrative form that he and Lapsui will repeatedly employ: a patchwork of individually titled short films or scenes. The expansion of the Russian oil and gas industry on the Yamal Peninsula brought a great change to the Nenets people, who lost their lands, herding routes, and the rhythm of life. One of the retrospective’s main highlights, this political film, which irritated state officials at the time, now seems like a prophecy about indigenous people becoming strangers in their own land.