Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Palace Pantry

By Jobie Weetaluktuk

Thursday, April 14, 2005

 

Igloo food storage.

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Aua's Snow Palace

By Jobie Weetaluktuk

Saturday, April 09, 2005

 

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Preparing for the Big Day

By Jobie Weetaluktuk

Sunday, April 03, 2005

 

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First Day in Igloolik

by SF Said

Monday, April 04, 2005

 

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Scenes Through Snow-Goggles: Take Two

by Nancy Wachowich

Wednesday, April 20, 2005

 

Filming shamanic rituals

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Scenes Through Snow-Goggles: Take One

by Nancy Wachowich

Tuesday, April 19, 2005

 

The idea of a blog

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KNUD RASMUSSEN - "ACROSS ARCTIC AMERICA"

Grade Level

This lesson plan is designed to be used with students ages 12-15.

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Students will research the Inuit style of filmmaking and list key points involved in the process by reading selections written by the three founding members of Igloolik Isuma Productions, the makers of the films Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner and The Journals of Knud Rasmussen.… Uqalimakkanirit

Maps are orders marching men to old places already seen
Maps conjure memories of spoil, of plunder and innocence
Maps are journeys to illusions no one has learned from
Maps are critical revisits with visions, vistas and never before seen repeats … Uqalimakkanirit

The strangers from Greenland sit in the snow house of Avva, a shaman.  Avva introduces his family to the visitors. The scene is tense, with silences that are awkward or watchful.  Avva puffs on his pipe.… Uqalimakkanirit

There are some films that stay with us forever, the characters alive within us, like spirit beings.… Uqalimakkanirit

The filmmakers of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen write, 'This film asks questions among others, about vanished peoples, colonization, cultural amnesia, effaced memory, Christianization and the complete erasure of a religion - especially in the absence of a literary tradition in most Aboriginal oral cultures.'
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Filmmaking in the Arctic

By Jobie Weetaluktuk

Wednesday, April 06, 2005

 

Isuma: "Thought and imagination have no end." Paul Quassa

Production Delay

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