Isuma Short Fiction

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  7m 23s

  Tungijuq (What We Eat)

  uploaded by: IsumaTV

  channel: IsumaTV 2.0

  Tungijuq (What We Eat), Isuma, Kunuk Cohn Productions 2009, Producer Stephane Rituit, Felix Lajeunesse, Paul Raphael, Zacharias Kunuk. Inuktut.

  Inuit jazz throat-singer Tanya Tagaq, and Cannes-winning filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk, talk back to Brigitte Bardot and anti-sealhunting lobby on the eternal reality of hunting.

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  45m 11s

  Issaittuq (Waterproof)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  This second Isuma-Artcirq co-production by Igloolik youth is a story about a young Inuk who lost his love. Using alcohol to put reality and the past behind, the past keeps hunting him. When he loses control and beats up a man on the street he is sentenced to two months in an outpost camp, where a hunter is waiting for him. 

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  58m 16s

  Nunaqpa (Going Inland)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  Nunaqpa is the second Isuma recreated fiction, filmed with actors in 1990 recreating a Summer caribou hunt in the 1930's. For Igloolik Inuit, it is the time of Nunaqpa, 'going inland,' the long walk in search of summer-fat caribou to catch enough meat for the hard winter ahead. Two families leave for the hunt, while the old couple and grandmother wait by the shore for their return.

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  8m 48s

  407

  uploaded by: Artcirq

  channel: Artcirq

  407, Artcirq, Igloolik Isuma, NITV productions 2006, Producer Guillaume Saladin, Director Bruce Haulli. Inuktut w/English s-t.

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  30m 35s

  Saputi (Fish Traps)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  As summer ends near Igloolik in the 1930's, three families build a saputi to trap fish going upriver for the winter. The days are getting shorter and young people daydream, while waiting for fish to come. But nature is not always predictable....

   

   

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  58m 23s

  Qaggiq (Gathering Place)

  uploaded by: Norman Cohn

  channel: MICH Living Archives

  First Isuma recreated fiction. A late-winter Inuit camp in the 1930's. Four families build a qaggiq, a large communal igloo, to celebrate the coming of spring with games, singing and drum dancing. A young man seeks a wife. The girl's father says no, but her mother says yes...

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