Category: Inuit Cinema
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Kino Rex
In early 2025, I curated At Home Amongst the Furthest Things—Greenland Film for Kino Rex in Bern, Switzerland. Presented in connection with the exhibition Greenland. Everything Changes at the ALPS Alpine Museum of Switzerland, the program explored the cinematic idea of Greenland and its place in the Northwest Atlantic. Bringing together historical and contemporary feature films and shorts, the…
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Zacharias Kunuk and The Inuit Style of Filmmaking
In early 2023, I co-curated Zacharias Kunuk and The Inuit Style of Filmmaking for Filmpodium in Zurich, Switzerland. The program centred on the work of Inuk filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk and situated it within a broader context of contemporary circumpolar Inuit filmmaking. I wrote the following essay to accompany the program. It was first published in…
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Labrador Inuit Film Pioneers
In 1892, a group of Inuit from Zoar, Nain, Okak, and Hebron left Labrador to work as ethnographic performers in the United States and Europe. The story of their work in Europe is still emerging but Jim Zwick and (soon) Nigel Markham (will) have written about their work in the United States.
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My Village in Nunavik on CBC Ideas
In June 2023, I appeared on CBC Radio’s Ideas to discuss Bobby Kenuajuak’s My Village in Nunavik (1999), a film about his home community of Puvirnituq. Kenuajuak made the film through the National Film Board as part of an emerging filmmaker competition for Indigenous filmmakers. The program was the final episode of Another Country: Change…