Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light. Diving into the NFB’s vast archive, she parses the complicated cinematic representation of the Inuit, harvesting fleeting truths and fortuitous accidents from a range of sources—newsreels, propaganda, ethnographic docs, and work by Indigenous filmmakers. Embedding historic footage into original animation, she conjures up a vision of hope and beautiful possibility.
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The director goes back to her roots in Pangnirtung, amongst her family and community. It leads her t...
A lonely fisherman drifts into haunted waters in search of food and finds much more than he bargaine...
It is late autumn and the Eskimos travel through soft snow and build karmaks, shelters with snow wal...
The time is early autumn. The woman wakes and dresses the boy. He practices with his sling while she...
Two Eskimo families travel across the wide sea ice. Before night falls they build small igloos and w...
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Full summer, and the tundra is bare; skin tents are up and it is time to attend to the fishing as th...