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.
Welcome To Our Qammaq is back, hosted by Carol Kunnuk, with Susan Avingaq and Leonie Qrunnut. Topics will be inooya’s (traditional dolls), some storytelling, with a few video clips playing in between. LIVE from Igloolik, November 3rd, 2023
Host Margaret Elias welcomes Louise Nigiyok to the show, coming in to Inuvik from Ulukhaktok. Louise has made a beautiful wall-hanging, commissioned by ICS. Louise talks about the wall hanging and her process on this episode.
Host Evano Jr. Aggark welcomes Peter 2 Aulatjut and Lena Arviyut to the show to talk about fall hunting, and fall ice conditions around Arviat. LIVE on October 26th, 2023.
The Arviat team welcomes Arviat mayor Joe Jr. Savikataaq back to the show today. Joe talks about the upcoming October 23rd election for the hamlet board of directors, and elections throughout the Kivalliq region. Evano encourages viewers from Nunavik to apply to have their own live show with Uvagut, and then we take a short tour of the Arviat hamlet building. LIVE on October 19th, 2023.
The Arviat team welcomes Molly Kidlapik and Janet Akat to the show today. The guests will talk about their work, providing widows with country food once a year, and other topics. LIVE on October 5th, 2023.
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.