Our special guest Marie-Helene Cousineau (left) is the founding Coordinator of Tarriaksuk Video Centre established in 1991. Cousineau formed the collective Arnait Ikajurtigiit (Women’s Video Workshop), and is its coordinator/trainer … read more
Nunavut Our Land
Igloolik, Summer 1946. The distant sound of the atookatookatook, the first gas engine to arrive in Igloolik, brings a surprise visitor to Qaisut, island of the walrus hunters. The Priest … read more
ANANA – MOTHER
Mary Kunuk
Nunavut 2001 | 60 Min. | DV Pal
Nunavut 2001 | 60 Min. | DV Pal
Abandoned by her father Vivi Kunuk was adopted by the Inuk family of her mother who raised her as a boy. This is but one remarkable chapter in her life. … read more
ARTCIRQ – ARTCIRQ
from the story tellers series
Guillaume Saladin, Natar Ungalaaq
Nunavut 2001 | 52 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
Nunavut 2001 | 52 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
Working and training together over the course of two summers, a group of students from 15 Montreal’s National Circus School and local Inuit youth from Igloolik produce a unique circus … read more
Igloolik, Spring 1946. It is the season of never-ending days. Two dog teams searching the spring ice, men and boys hunting day and night. Seals are everywhere: at the breathing … read more
NANUGIURUTIGA – MY FIRST POLAR BEAR
from the story tellers series
Zacharias Kunuk
Nunavut 2000 | 48 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
Nunavut 2000 | 48 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
Tales of hunting one of the most feared and respected animals in the Arctic: the polar bear, or nanuq. An Igloolik elder, Abraham Ulayuruluk, recounts stories about hunting polar bears … read more
Rapid change from traditional to modern life in Nunavut, like many post-colonial societies, has concentrated power, wealth and information in a few hands. NIPI examines fundamental questions of democracy, power and change in Nunavut and indirectly in Canada itself: in education, religion, gender, lifestyle, the distribution of economic development and the make-up and inner structure of the new leadership class. NIPI listens to Inuit leaders and elders, in their own voices, talking about leadership in the old way of life, and in the new.
QAGGIQ – GATHERING PLACE
from the story tellers series
Zacharias Kunuk
Nunavut 1989 | 58 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
Nunavut 1989 | 58 Min. | BetaSP, OmeU
A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930’s. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young … read more
Women of the Video Workshop reenact a traditional women’s activity: the use of the qulliq. The qulliq is the seal oil lamp and stove of the old days, the only … read more
Igloolik, Fall 1945. Even here, news of the terrible world war raging outside makes people frightened and uneasy. They talk of the danger of the unknown future, of shamanistic intervention … read more