I am a visual artist and a filmmaker, who has been working with Kingulliit productions since 2015 and with Arnait since 2012. Originally from Bulgaria, I have brought my own intercultural experience to my work with Inuit. Inspired by Kingulliit’s style, which prioritizes the power of the human experience, I have worked in the post production section of Kingulliit helping to bring that style to life through editing, and post production supervision. I helped train Inuit in video editing and have been instrumental in implementing a North-South editing system, which gives our Northern editors liberty and support.
I also bring my artistic experience to various projects of Kingulliit. I contributed to the Time Machine comic stories, and am currently leading the interactive map project “On The Land with Noah Piugattuk”.See more
In 1992, Zacharias Kunuk wanted to know more about Ayaya songs. He found out that the songs are riddles, because in Inuit culture they cannot say elder's names or direct animal names. Instead of saying "polar bear", they would say "the big white animal".
Noah Piugattuk started bringing back drum dancing and storytelling in his last years. He said that, unlike what the church was teaching them, not everything was only good or only bad, and Inuit traditions could not be just bad.
Jenny Vestey Vernon is a researcher who lived in Igloolik in the late 1960's and studied Inuit settlment patterns. She notes that women did not have easy lives, and many of them needed medical attention. When they got older, a lot of them moved to town to be nearer the Nursing Station.
A planner comes and makes a plan of Igloolik like a Southern town. Then he moved some of the houses which had been built in a chaotic manner, and moved them onto the streets he had drawn.
In Caribou Clothing and Storyteling Elders tell stories of people who lived on the land; showing us what the story is today, what it looks like now and who goes there now…with many questions around: are people still hunting caribou? Is it still a caribou route? Are there development companies working there now?
This channel is dedicated to the wonderful work of Inuit midwives.
Interviews with traditionnal midwives from Igloolik done in 1991, rescued from 8mm video recording (so sorry for the technical quality) are here in their original Inuktitut version.
Seperarete English transcripts are also available on this channel for each of the interviews.
NITV’s Online Video Mentoring (Tagrijausiunimut Atuagaq) project aims to inspire a new generation of Inuit filmmakers with the capacity to tell their stories, promote their culture and use video to revitalize and sustain the active use of Inuit Language.
Tunnganariq Nunagijavut (Welcome to Where We Live Now) is a weekly, live cultural and current affairs series produced in-house by Uvagut TV with community partners throughout Inuit Nunangat.
Marcy Siakuluk presents a segment featuring games held in Igloolik for Nunavut Day 2024, earlier in the week. Shot by Benjamin Kunuk and edited by Mark Jr. Malliki.
Tonight on Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat, Evano Jr. Aggark hosts, as the Isuma team presents the premiere of the new film "Tautuktavuk", directed by Lucy Tulugarjuk and Carol Kunnuk. There will be a short video introduction by Lucy, and some musical performances before the film.
Today on Welcome To Our Qammaq, hosted by Marcy Siakuluk, we have a segment of Uvagut staff training for live shows. Then older footage of Susan Avingaq and Dephora Qaunaq cleaning traditional clothes, and ending off with footage of Nataq Ungalaq preparing to cook seal meat.
This episode of Welcome to our Qammaq is hosted by Marcy Siakuluk. Zacharias Kunuk and crew go out to Qikiqtaajuk to anchor his boat for when the ice melts. Also featuring some clips from 2020 and 2022.
Inuit Games, traditional clothing contest at the Arviat Arena, celebrating National Indigenous Peoples Day in Canada. Featuring throat singers Karen Panigoniak, Maria Illungiayok, and many other appearances from Arviatmiut.
This week on Welcome To Our Qammaq, Benjamin Kunuk presents the segments, fishing in Naluqajarvik, the Spring seal hunt in 2021, as well as a clip with Susan Avingaq.
This week on Welcome to our Qammaq, the Igloolik team shares some footage from the fishing derby at Lailor Lake last weekend, and Susan Avingaq showing us how to make a liu liu. Hosted by Benjamin Kunuk.
Fishing Derby - edited by Mark Jr. Malliki, camera Ben Kunuk and Carol Kunuk.
Susan Avingaq liu-liu making; editor Mark Jr, camera Carol Kunuk and Mark Jr. Malliki
What you will find here are excerpts of the travels of Arnait Media Productions to Nuuk: meetings, encounters. discoveries.
This exchange with media producers , filmakers and artists of Greenland was possible with a grant from Canada Council for the Arts through the Aboriginal Peoples Collaborative Exchange.