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.
Mary Thompson returns to the show today to talk about Inuit drums. She'll have a few people joining to drum and dance with her. Hosted by Evano Jr. Aggark in Arviat, Nunavut.
On this episode of Welcome to Our Qammaq, Marcy Siakuluk welcomes Natalino Piugattuk to talk about the Inuit way of observing the weather. Then there's a pre-recorded segment of kids playing games on the ice in Igloolik.
Nukik Corporation is leading a proposed project of a 1,200km hydro-fibre link, from Manitoba’s grid into the Kivalliq region of Nunavut, directly benefiting the communities of Arviat, Baker Lake, Chesterfield Inlet, Rankin Inlet and Whale Cove.… Uqalimakkanirit
On this episode of Tunnganarniq Nunagijavut: Arviat, a group of women are operating heavy equipment machinery that inspired many across social media. Tonight we speak to Chelsea Aniksak, sewage truck operator, Alissa Matoo, rock truck operator, and Jewel McCallum, loader operator and supervisor.… Uqalimakkanirit
On this episode: IQALUGASUGVIK, a fishing trip towards Arctic Bay. Also featuring caribou shinning in the qammaq. Elder Daniel Qattalik, and youth participant Hunter Ungalaq with Susan Avingaq.
Produced by Nataq Ungalaq Camera: Mark Jr. Malliki Edited: Chris Awa, Mark Jr. Malliki Host: Marcy Siakuluk
Featuring Zacharias Kunuk, and Susan Avingaq making camera warmers, and featuring Jerry Iyyiraq, and others working on building a small boat. Also featuring Leonie Qrunnut and Nataq Ungalaq.
Lydia Mukyunik, Shayla Ikakhik, and Mike Gibbons at Aqqiumavik will talk about child rearing and the program that Aqqiumavik is running for pregnant women, and supporting women with newborn to 1 years old.
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.