Netsilik Eskimo Film Series

a series of 9 films and 21 half-hour parts sci­en­tif­ic advice by Asen Balik­ci and Guy Mary-Rousselière A series of 9 films in 21 half-hour parts. These films reveal the … read more

Asen Balikci’s impres­sive inter­na­tion­al back­round is mir­rored in the corpus of films that he has pro­duced. Born to a Bul­gar­i­an family living in turkey in 1929 he soon moved to Switzer­land where he stud­ied eco­nom­ics and geog­ra­phy at the Uni­ver­si­ty of Geneva. Later he moved to Canada and during 1954 to 1961 he worked at the Nation­al Museum in Ottawa. He gained his Ph.D in anthro­pol­o­gy at Colum­bia Uni­ver­si­ty. Later he taught at the 25 Uni­ver­si­ty of Mon­tréal. After his retire­ment in 1998 he moved to Sofia, Bul­gar­ia. During his entire aca­d­e­m­ic career Asen Balik­ci was a gifted teacher, a gen­er­ous net­work­er and a cre­ative insti­ga­tor in the field of Visual Anthro­pol­o­gy. Amongst other places, he has worked in Afghanistan, Pak­istan, Ethiopia, Bul­gar­ia, Moroc­co, Sene­gal, North­ern Canada, Siberia as well as in Sikkhim, both as an anthro­plo­gist and a filmmaker. 

In late winter when the cold is severe, the people and dogs are glad to stop their trek and make camp. In the blue dusk the men probe the snow … read more

In the morn­ing the women spread the furs over the igloos to air. The chil­dren play, strik­ing a ball of fur with a bone bat. The men wait patient­ly for … read more

Work begins on a big com­mu­ni­ty igloo, and all share in the build­ing of it; one cuts, one car­ries, one builds, and so on. The chil­dren imi­tate. Women pile snow … read more