Uvagut Archives

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  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. 

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  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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  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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  46m 50s

  Kiviaq versus Canada

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Kiviaq's extraordinary life story bears testimony to the treatment Indigenous people of the Canadian Arctic have endured for generations due to the government's inhumane colonial policies.… Uqalimakkanirit

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  8m 48s

  407

  uploaded by: Artcirq

  channel: Artcirq

  407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  42m 55s

  The Making of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: More about The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

  Funny, fascinating, behind the scenes view by Greenland filmmaker Kenneth Rasmussen.

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  47m 5s

  Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  Qallunajatut (Urban Inuk) follows the lives of three Inuit in Montreal over the course of one hot and humid summer.Only two generations ago Inuit lived in small, nomadic hunting camps scattered across the vast Arctic landscape.… Uqalimakkanirit

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  48m 2s

  Kunuk Family Reunion

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  In June 2003, Cannes prize-winner Zacharias Kunuk's family gathered at their traditional home camp site of Siuraajuk, to share stories and honor the ancestors who came before them: a wedding; a burial; messages from the past.

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  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  48m 3s

  Angakkuiit (Shaman Stories)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: NITV Nunatinni Igloolik Community-TV 1995-2007

  Inuit memories and experiences of shamanism, and oral histories about the last shamans practicing in the region of Igloolik, Nunavut. Interviewees range from young people to elders and politicians, but they all share a belief that things happen, and that shamanism is still a living religion.

  … Uqalimakkanirit
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  50m 37s

  Artcirq

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Exploring Inuit Culture Online

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  Artcirq.

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  28m 51s

  Ningiura

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Uvagut Archives

  Ningiura is an experimental fiction based on authentic oral histories, traditional knowledge and contemporary reality of Igloolik today.

  Filmmaker: Mary Kunuk, Marie-Hélène Cousineau

  Filmmaker Contact:

   

  Visit our website www.arnaitvideo.ca or www.isuma.ca

  Producer's Name: Arnait Video Productions

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  28m 52s

  Nunavut (Our Land) Episode 1: Qimuksik (Dog Team)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: Exploring Inuit Culture Online

  In Qimuksik (Dog Team) one family travels in the immense and beautiful arctic during spring. Inuaraq teaches his young son how to survive in the old way: driving the dogs, building the igloo, catching seals on the open water, running down caribou to feed the family.    

  … Uqalimakkanirit