Faber Navalis

Restoration of a wooden ship recognized as historical maritime treasure by the Norwegian Directorate for Cultural Heritage. This film is an experiment in autobiographical ethnography in which the shipwhright is also the filmmaker, at the same time director and directed, both silent artisan and self-aware documentarist: a combination of aesthetics and ethnography which attempts to bring out an inner dimension that may only with difficulty, if it all, be rendered with propositional prose.