Artist

Zacharias Kunuk

Kingulliit Productions is a majority Inuit-owned multimedia production company based in Igloolik Nunavut, founded in 2010 by Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn. Kingulliit updates and replaces Igloolik Isuma Productions and continues the tradition for producing independent Inuktitut-language films and TV from the Inuit point of view, while recognizing the importance of new media and innovative technologies to the future of communications in the north in the 21st century.

Videography

Angakusajaujuq - The Shaman's Apprentice

2021, 21:00 minutes, Inuktitut, English w subtitles in English, French, Spanish

Hunting With My Ancestors , Walrus Hunting Training Video

2018, 32:00 minutes, colour, Inuktitut with English subtitles

Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 6: Seal Pup Hunt

2018, 55:29 minutes, colour, Inuktitut

Hunting With My Ancestors Episode 3: Dog Team Bear Hunt

2018, 29:58 minutes, colour, Inuktitut

Stories of Our Elders SEASON 1

2016, 154:42 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 28: The Man with the Long Hair

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 27: The Owl and the Caribou

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 26: The Fox and The Rabbit

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 25: The Raven and The Owl

2016, 05:32 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 24: The Owls and The Rabbits

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 23: The Lonely Woman and the Polar Bears

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 22: Tungujuluk and Saunikoq, The Walrus and The Bear

2016, 05:34 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 21: Isigaligarssik, The Man Without a Wife

2016, 05:32 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 20: Imarasugssuaq, The Man who Ate his Wives

2016, 05:32 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 19: Sedna, The Ruler of the Sea

2016, 05:32 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 18: Tiggak, The Bear and The Snow Bunting

2016, 05:30 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 17: Qimmikussualuk, The Giant Dog

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 16: Lumaaq, The Woman Who Tricked Her Stepson

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 15: Mahaha, The Tickle Monster

2016, 05:32 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 14: Arnaaluk, The Giant Woman

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 13: Atungakkuuk, The World Traveler

2016, 05:32 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 12: The Woman and The Auvvik

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 11: Anarteq, The Man Who Became a Fish

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 10: The Seagull Who Married the Raven

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 9: Kiviuyk and the Old Woman

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 8: The Little Orphan Girl

2016, 05:31 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 7: Caribou and the Polar Bear

2016, 05:30 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 6: Bow and Arrow

2016, 05:30 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 5: The Child Taken by the Troll

2016, 05:30 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 4: The Man on the Moon

2016, 05:33 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 3: The Troll Story

2016, 05:35 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 2: Kaujakjuk

2016, 05:30 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Stories of Our Elders Ep. 1: Ptarmigan and Snow Bunting

2016, 05:36 minutes, Colour, Inuktitut, English, French

Inuit Cree Reconciliation

2013, 46:34 minutes, colour, Inuktitut and Cree with English subtitles

Critical Writing

Temporal Territories: An Anthology on Indigenous Experimental Cinema
by Sky Hopinka et al. Brooklyn: COUSIN Collective, 2024.
Indigenous Media Arts in Canada: Making, Caring, Sharing
by Dana Claxton and Ezra Winton. Waterloo: Wilfred Laurier University Press, 2023.
Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget / On Inuit Cinema
by Mark Turner. St. John's: Memorial University Press, 2022.
Esker Foundation Programming Guide January 2019 - May 2019
by Naomi Potter. Calgary: Esker Foundation, 2019.
Isuma Is a Cumulative Effort
by assinnajaq. Canadian Art, april 22, 2019.
Transitions
by James Cullingham. ActiveHistory.ca, Mar 5, 2018. History Department at the University of Saskatchewan and Huron University College, 2018.
Inuit Filmmaking That Sparks a Fire
by Camille Georgeson-Usher. Canadian Art, Jan 23, 2018.
Intercultural Cinema and the (Re)envisioning of Law: Exploring...
by Rebecca Johnson. Envisioning Legality, 2017. Routledge, 2017.
Best Canadian Films of All Time: The Canuck Canon Pulls a Fast One
by John Semley. The Globe and Mail, May 29, 2015.
Isuma: Inuit Art Video
by Bruno Cornellier. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Spring 2010, v. 19, no. 1.
Isuma: Inuit Video Art
by Bruno Cornellier. Canadian Journal of Film Studies, Spring 2010, v. 19, no. 1.
New Documentary Recounts Bizarre Climate Changes Seen by Inuit Elders
by Guy Dixon. The Globe and Mail, Oct 19, 2010.
Tomorrow hits today: The odds stack up against two unlikely heroes...
by Jason Anderson. EYE WEEKLY, Mar. 26, 2009, v. 18, no. 20.
Isuma: Inuit Video Art by Michael Robert Evans
by Sandra Tober. Arctic, Mar. 2009, v. 62, no. 1.
Triste Artique: Amy Taubin on the Films of Zacharias Kunuk
by Amy Taubin. Artforum, Apr. 1, 2007, v. 38, no. 8.
The Double Entendre of Re-Enactment
by Gerald McMaster. Toronto: Vtape, 2007.
Tragedy at the top of the world: From a traditional Inuit town, a...
by Gayle MacDonald. The Globe and Mail, Mar. 18, 2006.
Kunuk's silent partner: Norman Cohn grew up in New York. Zacharias...
by Sarah Milroy. The Globe and Mail, Sept. 6, 2006.
A Brave Opening Choice as TIFF Kick Off: The Journals Sets the...
by Rick Groen. The Globe and Mail, Sept. 7, 2006.
Video Art, A Guided Tour by Catherine Elwes (Books)
by Tom Sherman. Border Crossings, Aug. 2005, v. 24, no. 3.
Independent Media: The Age of Diversity
by Chris Gehman. Mobile Media: Films and Videos by Artists, 2005.
Natives bring culture to the city: Aboriginal arts from around the...
by Susan Walker. The Toronto Star, Oct. 20 Fall, 2004.
The Root of the Native Voice Film Festival: Aboriginal arts from...
by Frank J. King III. The Native Voice, Jan. 26, 2004, v. 3, no. 2.
"Atanarjuat" Off-Screen:: From "Media Reservations" to the World Stage
by Faye Ginsburg. American Anthropologist, Dec. 2003, v. 105, no. 4.
Talking Back to Primitivism: Divided Audiences, Collective Desires
by Lucas Bessire. American Anthropologist, Dec. 2003, v. 105, no. 4.
"Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner": Culture, History, and Politics in...
by Shari Huhndorf. American Anthropologist, Dec. 2003, v. 105, no. 4.
The running man: Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk sprints in with...
by Ingrid Randoja. Now, Apr. 11, 2002, v. 21, no. 32.
True North: Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner
by Jason Anderson. EYE WEEKLY, Apr. 11, 2002.
Atanarjuat's story no match for its cinema saga: Acclaimed Inuit...
by Sid Adilman. The Toronto Star, Apr. 6, 2002.
A way of life frozen in time: Rhyme & Reason
by Sandra Martin. The Globe and Mail, May 8, 2002.
Against all odds: Film Friday
by Liam Lacey. The Globe and Mail, Apr. 12, 2002.
The sublime north: With its sweeping, intensely human take on...
by Rick Groen. The Globe and Mail, Apr. 12, 2002.
Atanarjuat exorcises the ghost of Nanook: Innovative Inuit movie...
by Peter Howell. The Toronto Star, Apr. 12, 2002.
Reel change: When a culture discovers filmmaking, neither the...
by A.O. Scott. The New York Times Magazine, July 14, 2002.
Northern Light: 2002 Artist of the year
by Sarah Milroy. The Globe and Mail, Dec. 28, 2002.
North meets South of France: Premiere of Zacharias Kunuk's...
by Katrina Onstad. The National Post, May 15, 2001.
Permafrost on the Riviera: Premiere of Zacharias Kunuk's Inuktitut...
by Liam Lacey. The Globe and Mail, May 18, 2001.
Hefty program for second aboriginal film festival: 10 screenings...
by Susan Walker. The Toronto Star, Nov. 16, 2001.
ImagineNATIVE: writing back indigenous culture
by Kalli Paakspuu. POV, Winter 2001, no. 45.
From an Inuit point of view: writing back indigenous culture
by Blake Gopnik. The Globe and Mail, Sept. 13, 2000.
Canada's first Inuktitut feature-film nears completion: writing...
by Valerie G. Connell. Nunatsiaq News, Aug. 18, 2000.
Project/Process: An Introduction to Magnetic North: writing back...
by Jenny Lion. Program - Video Pool Inc., Winnipeg, Nov. Fall 2000.
Canadian Currents: A Selection of CD-ROMs and Internet Projects
by Nina Czegledy. Toronto: Absolute Choice Curatorial Collective, 1999.
Northern Exposure
by Catherine Elwes. Art Monthly, June 1998, no. 217.
A Rambling Fireside Commentary on the Seven Dukes of Kleinberg
by Andy Fabo. Fuse, June 1997, v. 20, no. 3.
Zacharias Kunuk: Video Artist
by Roger Matuz. Contemporary Canadian Artists, 1997. Toronto: Gale Canada, 1997.
Mirror Machine: Video and Identity
by Janine Marchessault. Toronto: YYZ Books, 1996.
Connecting the North
by Marina Devine. Aboriginal Voices, May 1995, v. 2, no. 2.
Mirror Machine: Video and Identity
by Janine Marchessault. YYZ Books, McGill University, 1995.
Film and Video News
by Karen Tisch. Fuse, May 1994, v. 17, no. 4.
Video award winners make compelling series on Inuit culture
by Nancy Baele. The Ottawa Citizen, May 25, 1994.
Manifest Diversity: Toward A Video Literature of Community Activism
by Barbara Lattanzi. Fuse, Spring 1993, v. 16, no. 2.
Neo-Native Art: New Approaches to Traditional Thinking
by Rick Hill. Revisions, 1992. Banff: Paperworks Press, 1992.
Land Spirit Power: First Nations at The National Gallery
by Mary Anne Barkhouse. Matriart, 1992, v. 3, no. 2.
Zacharias Kunuk: First Nations at The National Gallery
by Diana Nemiroff. Land, Spirit, Power / First Nations at the National Gallery of Canada, Sept. 25, 1992. Ottawa: National Gallery of Canada, 1992.
Nunaqpa (Going Inland): Zacharias Kunuk
Northern Lights Exhibition, 1992.
À la découverte des Amériques: Zacharias Kunuk
by Daniel Carrière. Le Devoir, Aug. 29, 1992.
Local Channels / Zach Kunuk Remodels T.V.: Chaînes locales / Zach...
by Kass Banning. Parallelogramme, 1991, v. 17, no. 1.
Zacharias Kunuk: Video Maker and Inuit Historian: Chaînes locales...
by Steven Hendrick and Kathleen Fleming. Inuit Art Quarterly, Summer 1991.
Northern Lights: An Exhibition of Canadian Video Art
by Peggy Gale and Akihiko Morhishita. Tokyo: Canadian Embassy, Tokyo, 1991.
Qaggiq Video Premiere
by Unknown. Inuit Art Quaterly, Fall 1990.
Canadian Countercurrents: The Images '89 Festival
by Helen Lee. The Independent, Aug. 1989.
Images '89
by Donna Lypchuk. Cinema Canada, Sept. 1989.
Wanna Be: Zach Kunuk at Video In
by Elspeth Sage. Front, Nov. 1989.
Inuit Video Recreates Life in 30's: Far North in New Light
by Elizabeth Godley. Vancouver Sun, Sept. 20, 1989.
Qaggiq
by Pat Thompson. Cinema Canada, Sept. 1989.
Sharp Focus on Zacharias Kunuk
by Jerry White. New Internationalist, Apr., no. 344.