MICH Living Archives

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22 May 2014

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Watch over 1,000 films by or about the Inuit. Collections include Igloolik Isuma Productions, Arnait Video Productions, Inuit Broadcast Corporation, among many others.

Nunavut Arctic College students in Iqaluit are currently reviewing these videos, most of them in Inuktitut, and tagging them to facilitate improved search results for IsumaTV viewers, brodening the audience for these films.

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  • 1m 25s

    Aamai

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Qaujimaviit

    Qaujimaviit? is a series of educational, yet entertaining, videos for people who are interested in Inuktitut and want to learn more about the subtleties of this intriguing Northern language.

    Filmmaker: IsumaTV

    Filmmaker Contact:

     

    info@isuma.tv

    Producer's Name: IsumaTV

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    uploaded date: 09-02-2009

  • 1m 11s

    Qaujimaviit? - Kinauvit?

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Qaujimaviit

    Qaujimaviit? is a series of educational, yet entertaining, videos for people who are interested in Inuktitut and want to learn more about the subtleties of this intriguing Northern language.

    Produced by IsumaTV.  2009.

     

     

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    uploaded date: 09-02-2009

  • 1m 51s

    Qaujimaviit? - Sila

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Qaujimaviit

    Qaujimaviit? is a series of educational, yet entertaining, videos hosted by Peter Irniq for people who are interested in Inuktitut and want to learn more about the subtleties of this intriguing Northern language. Today's word is Sila

    Igloolik Isuma Productions. 2009.  

     

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    uploaded date: 09-02-2009

  • 1m 47s

    Qaujimaviit? Ep 8, Greetings

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Qaujimaviit

    Qaujimaviit? is a series of short videos for learning or improving Inuktut language skills with Elder Peter Irniq. Today's focus is on greetings.

    ISUMA: Qaujimaviit? Episode 8, Greetings (2 mins) Igloolik Isuma Productions 2009, Host Peter Irniq. Inuktut and English.

     

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    uploaded date: 09-02-2009

  • 1m 20s

    Qaujimaviit? Ep 9, Food

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Qaujimaviit

    Qaujimaviit? is a series of short videos for learning or improving Inuktut language skills with Elder Peter Irniq.  Today's episode is about food.

    ISUMA: Qaujimaviit? Episode 9, Food (2 mins) Igloolik Isuma Productions 2009, Host Peter Irniq. Inuktut and English.

     

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    uploaded date: 09-02-2009

  • 48m 16s

    Exile Nutaunikut

    uploaded by: Zacharias Kunuk

    channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

    In 1953, Inuit families were forcibly relocated to the uninhabited and inhospitable high arctic, 1500 kilometres north of their traditional homeland of Nunavik, in northern Québec, to extend Canadian claims of sovereignty to Ellesmere Island. Inuit endured families torn apart and many years of hardship.… Read more

    uploaded date: 03-02-2009

  • 1h 31m 12s

    Alianait (w/English subtitles)

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Alianait!

    ‘Alianait!’ is a peforming arts documentary celebrating the coming of age of Artcirq - a youth-focused, circus troupe founded in Igloolik that combines traditional Inuit cultural expression with modern circus techniques.

     

     

     

     

     

     

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    uploaded date: 11-01-2009

  • 42m 9s

    Why We Do This?

    uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

    channel: Kingulliit The Next Generation Blog

    Three partners of Igloolik Isuma Productions interview themselves about the meaning of their work together. Shot sometime in the early 1990's, date unknown.

    Why We Do This? Zach Kunuk, Qulitalik, Norman Cohn, 42:09, Inuktitut and English. Early 1990s.

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    uploaded date: 10-06-2008

  • 45m 11s

    Issaittuq (Waterproof)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him. 

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    uploaded date: 10-02-2007

  • 58m 16s

    Nunaqpa (Going Inland)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: MICH Living Archives

    Nunaqpa is the second Isuma recreated fiction, filmed with actors in 1990 recreating a Summer caribou hunt in the 1930's. For Igloolik Inuit, it is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' the long walk in search of summer-fat caribou to catch enough meat for the hard winter ahead. Two families leave for the hunt, while the old couple and grandmother wait by the shore for their return.

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    uploaded date: 29-10-2006

  • 49m 24s

    Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit)

    uploaded by: Norman Cohn

    channel: Inuit Culture Education

    A group of Nunavut elders travel to five museums in North America to see and identify artifacts, tools and clothing collected from their Inuit ancestors.

    Inuit Piqutingit (What Belongs to Inuit), Igloolik Isuma Productions, Kivalliq Inuit Association 2009, Producers Bernadette Dean, Katarina Soukup, Zacharias Kunuk. English and Inuktut w/Eng s-t.

     

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    uploaded date: 10-05-2006