Norman Cohn

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Portrait de Norman Cohn

Norman Cohn (b. 1946, New York) is a video artist and filmmaker, and president and co-founder with Zacharias Kunuk of Kunuk Cohn Productions, co-founder of Isuma Distribution International and IDI's website IsumaTV. A Canadian citizen since 1981, Cohn lived and worked in Igloolik from 1985-2005. In 1990, as one of four founding partners of Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc. with Kunuk, elder Pauloosie Qulitalik and the late Paul Apak, Cohn's early video work helped develop Isuma’s signature style of ‘re-lived' cultural drama, combining the authenticity of modern activist video with the ancient art of Inuit storytelling.

Cohn is producer, co-writer and cameraman for the Cannes-winning feature, Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, the Nunavut (Our Land) TV series and most of Isuma’s collective videography through 2005; co-director with Zacharias Kunuk on The Journals of Knud Rasmussen which opened the 2006 Toronto International Film Festival, and the 2014 non-fiction feature, Ataatama Nunanga (My Father's Land), on the 2012 Baffinland Iron Mine Environmental Assessment Public Hearings. Cohn led creation of IsumaTV's website starting in 2007 and was co-director with Zacharias Kunuk of Digital Indigenous Democracy from 2012-14 using new media to inform and consult Inuit to improve democratic participation in the Baffinland Iron Mine environmental review. Before moving to Igloolik in 1985 Cohn’s solo video exhibition, Norman Cohn: Portraits, opened in 1983 at the Art Gallery of Ontario, Vancouver Art Gallery, National Gallery of Canada, Musee des arts contemporain and 49th Parallel Gallery in NY. Cohn's experimental non-fiction feature, Quartet for Deafblind (1986), was selected for Dokumenta 8 in Kassel, Germany. Winner of a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship to assist his work in Igloolik with Kunuk, Cohn was co-winner with Kunuk of the 1994 Bell Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Art. Most recently, Kunuk, Cohn and the 30-year ISUMA media art group were selected to represent Canada in the 2019 Venice Biennale, presenting My Father's Land and their newest feature, One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk, to over 300,000 visitors to the Canada Pavilion in Venice from May through November 2019.

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  • IND-LJD-110

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

    Quaqtaq

    1981

    Mary Tarqiapik enlève le gras d'une peau

    Louis-Jacques Dorais

    Louis-Jacques Dorais Fonds/Avataq Cultural Institute/LJD-110

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • IND-DIO 269

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

    Quaqtaq

    1950s

    Inugaluaq Elisapie Tukkiapik gratte une peau avec son ulu

    Father Jules Dion, O.M.I.

    Father Jules Dion, O.M.I./Avataq Cultural Institute/DIO-269

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • Juanasialuk 014

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

     

    Cette femme vient de terminer de gratter une peau de caribou. Elle s'apprête à travailler. Elle fait des patrons de couture. Elle porte des vêtements de peau de caribou. Ceci est un grattoir pour le gras. Ceci est un grattoir pour la peau. Seulement au moyen d'un ulu. On peut voir les trous de balles.

    Juanasialuk E9-1407, Puvirnituq

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • Simiunie Weet 022

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

     

    Parka pour l'été, Paire de pantalons, bottes d'hiver imperméables, pantalons qui ont séché, Assouplisseur pour bottes de peau, bas d'hiver, doublure de botte imperméable, botte d'hiver assouplie, Doublure de botte assouplie,

    Simeonie Weetaluktuk E9-1752, Inukjuak

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • Simiunie Weet 021

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

     

    Bottes d'hiver avec fourrure, Bottes d'hiver avec la jambe en peau de jeune caribou et pied amovible, Mitaines pour l'hiver, Bottes d'hiver avec la jambe en peau de jeune caribou et pied amovible, Bas pour l'hiver

    Simeonie Weetaluktuk E9-1752, Inukjuak

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • Simiunie Weet 018

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

     

    L'amautik, manteau des femmes qui servait à transporter le bébé. Un ancien amautik d'hiver. Ce sont des ailes. Anciens vêtements. Anciens pantalons en peau de caribou. Bottes en peau de phoque. Mitaines en peau de caribou

    Simeonie Weetaluktuk E9-1752, Inukjuak

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • Simiunie Weet 007

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    chaîne: Kingulliit

     

    Une vieille tente avec des peaux de phoques sur le dessus. Des peaux de caribou en bas. L'entrée. Autrefois, les Inuits faisaient des tentes en peau de caribou. Car il n'y avait rient d'autre à utiliser pour une tente. On installait les poteaux de la tente sur un monticule de roches afin que la tente soit plus haute. Autrefois, les tentes étaient faites ainsi.

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    uploaded date: 13-05-2015

  • ARTCO

    uploaded by: David Ertel

    <?php echo t('ARTCO "Artisans of Today\'s Communities" is a project led by Kingulliit Productions and IsumaTV where Inuit and Cree children use new media tools to explore their past and present realities, practice collective action and create a better future.') ?>

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    uploaded date: 22-08-2011

  • Distribution

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    These urls are direct links to 1080p h264 files for Isuma Productions. They can be copied (right-click and select "Copy Link Location") and pasted and emailed directly to authorized clients. These urls are specially encoded and stop working after 24 hours from the time you loaded this page.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 27-01-2010

  • Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change

    uploaded by: Ian Mauro

    About the film

    Inuit Knowledge and Climate Change had its world premiere October 23, 2010, at the imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto. The complete film also streamed online simultaneously watched by more than 1500 viewers around the world. Following the film, a Q&A with filmmakers Zacharias Kunuk and Dr.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 29-04-2009

  • IsumaTV

    uploaded by: IsumaTV

    This channel showcases Radio and Video interviews with the minds behind IsumaTV, and their reflections about its development.

    IsumaTV is a collaborative multimedia platform for indigenous filmmakers and media organizations. Each user can design their own space, or channel, to reflect their own identity, mandate and audience.

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    uploaded date: 10-02-2008

  • Kingulliit

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    ᑭᖑᓪᓖᑦ ᐅᖄᕗᖅ ᐃᓄᓐᓂᒃ ᐃᓅᓕᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᔪᓂᒃ 1900-ᐄᑦ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᕐᖄᕕᓂᖏᓐᓂ 30-ᓂ. ᐊᑦᓯᔭᐅᒪᔪᕕᓃᑦ `ᑭᖑᕚᖑᓕᕐᑐᑦ` ᓯᕗᓪᓕᐹᐅᓐᓂᕋᒥᒃ ᐊᕐᕌᒍᒐᓴᕐᔪᐊᓂ ᓵᑦᓯᓱᑎᒃ ᐊᑦᔨᐅᖏᑦᑐᒥᒃ ᓄᓇᕐᔪᐊᖑᒻᒥᔪᒥᒃ ᐊᓯᑦᔨᓚᐅᕐᓯᒪᓐᖏᑑᑉ ᖃᐅᔨᒻᒫᕆᔭᐅᑦᓱᓂᓗ ᓴᓂᐊᓐᓂᑦ ᑲᒪᒋᔭᐅᓕᓂᒻᒪᕆᐅᑦᓱᓂ ᐊᒥᓱᒐᓴᕐᔪᐊᓄᑦ ᑭᒍᕚᕇᕐᑎᑐᓄᑦ ᑌᑦᓱᒪᓐᖓᓂᐊᓗᒃ.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 04-12-2012

  • Lloyd Lipsett Human Rights

    uploaded by: Lloyd Lipsett

    A channel of commentary and documents by Lloyd Lipsett, human rights lawyer and leader of a 2012-13 Human Rights Impact Assessment of the $6 billion Baffinland Iron Mine proposed development in the middle of north Baffin Island.

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    uploaded date: 07-05-2012

  • Our Baffinland Atlas

    uploaded by: Ian Mauro

    ABOUT OUR BAFFINLAND

    The Arctic is warming double the global average, decreasing sea ice, making it easier to access and extract mineral and oil resources from the region, and this cumulative climatic and economic change has significant human and environmental health implications for Inuit and their communities.… En savoir plus

    uploaded date: 12-09-2013

  • The Fast Runner Trilogy

    uploaded by: John Hodgins

    Three unique Inuit films expressing the dramatic history of one of the world’s oldest oral cultures from it’s own point of view.
    “A masterpiece... The first national cinema of the 21st century.” – A.O. Scott, NY Times review of Atanarjuat The Fast Runner, 2002.

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    uploaded date: 23-10-2009