Frozen but Always in Motion:: Arctic Film, Video, and Broadcast
The Velvet Light Trap, Spring 2005, no. 55, pp. 52-64
Jerry White discusses the ways in which Inuit artists use low-cost technologies to document disappearing traditions. Various formal aesthetics create a kind of narrative inefficiency, which produces a sense of lyricism that in and of itself, is evocative of the rhythms of everyday life. The medium manipulates time and space, and is characterized by a tension between linear and open-ended impulses, renegotiating the visual meaning of near-obsolete Indigenous cultural practices and their relationship to the Arctic landscape.
ITEM 2005.210 – available for viewing in the Research Centre
Videos, Artworks and Artists Cited
Natsik Huntinh – Mosha Michael
The Hunters/Asivaqtiin – Mosha Michael
Whale Hunting/Qilaluganiatut – Mosha Michael
Qaggiq – Zacharis Kunuk
Saputi – Zacharis Kunuk
Nunavut – Igloolik Isuma
Ataguttaaluk Starvation – Arnait Video
Quilliq – Arnait Video
Piujuk and Angutautuq – Arnait Video