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.
Host Nuatie Aggark welcomes Hattie Alagalak to the show, live from her cabin. Hattie shares some of her family history with us. LIVE on September 28th, 2023.
Join us as host Bambi Amos interviews her mother, Siliuyaq (Beverly Amos). Beverly shares her history, stories, some tips for working on hides, and the land around her Imaryuk (Husky Lakes) cabin.
Host Evano Jr. Aggark welcomes David Nibgoarsi to the show. David shows us some of his carvings and makes a brand new carving on air! LIVE on September 21st, 2023.
Join the Arviat team in welcoming Brian Arualak to the show. Brian is a wonderful artist and will be showing some of his drawings. LIVE on September 14th, 2023.
Host Evano Jr. Aggark welcomes Jacob Okatsiak and William-Bob Issumatarjuak to the show today. Jacob and William-Bob will be jamming on the piano and accordion for us. LIVE on August 31st, 2023.
Host Evano Jr. Aggark welcomes back the mayor of Arviat: Joe Jr. Savikataaq back to the show, along with Laura Tassiuk. Joe and Laura give some updates for the citizens of Arviat. LIVE on August 24th, 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.