Nunavut

Without stories we are lost... - by Hugh Brody

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

The strangers from Greenland sit in the snow house of Avva, a shaman. Avva introduces his family to the visitors. The scene is tense, with silences that are awkward or watchful. Avva puffs on his pipe.… Read more

uploaded date: 04-12-2008
Spirit Being Dialogue - by Floyd Favel

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

There are some films that stay with us forever, the characters alive within us, like spirit beings.… Read more

uploaded date: 04-12-2008
Speaking from the Heart of Collective Memories - by Catherine Martin

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: The Journals of Knud Rasmussen: A Sense of Memory and High-definition Inuit Storytelling

The filmmakers of The Journals of Knud Rasmussen write, 'This film asks questions among others, about vanished peoples, colonization, cultural amnesia, effaced memory, Christianization and the complete erasure of a religion - especially in the absence of a literary tradition in most Aboriginal oral cultures.'
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uploaded date: 04-12-2008
Alianait Arts Festival 2008

uploaded by: Stéphane Rituit

Created in 2005, Alianait! Arts Festival is one of the biggest cultural events in Nunavut celebrating and connecting cultures through music and arts.
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uploaded date: 29-06-2008
4m 23s

Ch. 11 Atanarjuat's running scene

uploaded by: IsumaTV

channel: IsumaTV

An interview with Norman Cohn (11 of 12)

Year of Production: 2008

Country: Canada
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uploaded date: 04-05-2008
56m 50s

Live Art

uploaded by: Artcirq

channel: Artcirq

Terry Uyarak and Guillaume Saladin, members of Artcirq, start a weekly TV program transmitted on Channel 5 in Igloolik, Nunavut and re-broadcast on IsumaTV for the worldwide audience.

Year of Production: 2009

Country: Canada

Region: Nunavut
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uploaded date: 04-04-2008
38m 58s

Artcirq Lesson

uploaded by: Rosa Flynn

channel: EICC

A video of a lesson using the ‘Exploring Inuit Culture Curriculum’ of Isuma. Bringing Inuit culture into primary schools for the International Polar Year, the EICC is a multi-media unit for grades 4-6 about Inuit culture, the Arctic and Canada’s newest territory, Nunavut.… Read more

uploaded date: 27-03-2008
1h 30m 8s

Kikkik E1-472

uploaded by: imagineNATIVE Film Festival Curated Collection

channel: imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival

During the 1950's famine in the Canadian Arctic, Kikkik, an Inuk woman killed a man in self defense and them found herself in the position of having to leave 2 of her 5 children on the tundra. She was tried for murder and criminal negligence and subsequently acquitted. Written by Elisapee Karetak, one of Kikkik's daughters.

Filmmaker: Martin Kreelak
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uploaded date: 20-12-2007