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.
Join Nataq Ungalaq in presenting an interview with the one and only Susan Avingaq. featuring some clips of just a few of her wonderful contributions to the show and other projects over the years.
Join Evano Jr Aggark in welcoming Ian John Ahmak and Joey Komakjuak who are at the Mat-Su Arctic Winter Games 2024 as Inuit Games athletes. Followed by a clip of Lucy Tulugarjuk interviewing some young AWG Athletes from last year.
Join the Arviat team in welcoming Ramon Kaviok, Aupak Irkok, and Kukik Baker. Aqqiumavvik Society in Arviat is reporting its Nunavut wide research on Weather Water Ice Climate Information tonight on Uvagut TV.
Host Evano Jr. Aggark welcomes members of Aqqiumavvik, the Arviat Wellness Society back on the show. Appearing live on the show are Catherine Quluaq Pilakapsi, Maryanne Inuaraq Tattuniee, Lucy Sanertanut and Paul Sanertanut. Featuring a short clip of Mike and Lisa Gibbons from a show last year.
This week on Welcome To Our Qammaq, we have Zacharias Kunuk making a small igloo for his new dog for laying puppys, shot by Nataq Ungalaq.
There is ice picking to Avvaaja, shots of Jerry and Zach going to ice pick, and Susan Avingaq sending them out by two snowmobiles, with Susan telling a story about ice picking and small igloos for dogs. As well as a few other short clips.
Kyle Jennings Kuptana currently lives in Tuktoyaktuk NT.
Kyle is 36 years old, he has lived half his life in Tuktoyaktuk and the other half in Inuvik. He is currently working for the hamlet of Tuktoyaktuk as a heavy duty mechanic for the last two years.
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.