 It also toured the United States in 1976 as a bicentennial gift from the French government.Physician and poet Lewis Thomas wrote an essay entitled "The Ik"; Cevin Soling read this as a child, sparking an interest that ultimately led to his making a documentary, "Ikland" (2011).It was produced in the mid-2000s by Spectacle Films and directed by Soling and David Hilbert.