Publications

Books

On Inuit Cinema | Inuit TakugatsaliuKatiget
Edited by Mark David Turner
Memorial University Press, 2022

Silver Medal, Performing Arts, 2024
Independent Publisher Book Awards

Shortlisted, 2023 Atlantic Book Award
for Scholarly Writing

Labrador Cinema
Mark David Turner and Morgen Mills
Brack and Brine, 2022

Silver Medal, Canada East Non-Fiction, 2024
Independent Publisher Book Awards

Selected Writing

“Aerial Moving Imagery of Newfoundland and Labrador, 1936–1972”
Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. 118, no. 3, 2025, pp. 12–15.

Magazine article

“Zu hause bei den Fernsten dingen—Grönland in film | At home amongst the furthest things—Greenland Film”
KINO REX, Bern, 2025.

Program essay | Read online →

Remotely Useful: Practical Lessons for Northern Community Archiving
Mills, Morgen and Mark David Turner. Council on Library and Information Resources, CLIR pub. 187, 2023.

Report / guide | Open access →

“Labrador Inuit and Moravian Missionaries: Legacies of a Shared Documentary Heritage”
The German Quarterly, vol. 96, no. 1, 2023, pp. 265–267.

Journal article | Details →

“Labrador in Early Hollywood”
Mark David Turner and Morgen Mills. Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. 116, no. 1, 2023, pp. 12–16.

Magazine article

“Zacharias Kunuk and the Inuit Style of Filmmaking” and “Inuit Kurzfilme aus Kanada”
Filmpodium, 1 January–15 February 2023, pp. 30–34 and 41–42. German.

Program essays | Open access →

“Brass for Northern Labrador”
Gatherings, vol. 3, edited by Stephen Johnson and Maria Mendl. Jackson Creek Press, 2022.

Photo essay

“Tribute: Mosha Michael”
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 35, no. 2, 2022, pp. 66–67.

Magazine article

“Showcasing Cinematic Talent at the Arctic Arts Summit: An Interview with Jeremy Emerson”
Inuit Art Quarterly Online, June 27, 2022.

Interview | Read online →

Into the White: The Renaissance Arctic and the End of the Image by Christopher P. Heuer
The Northern Review, no. 51, 2021, pp. 193–195.

Academic review | Open access →

“Looking at Blueberries, Sheep and Eggs in Decks Awash—A Photo Essay”
Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. 114, no. 2, 2021, pp. 24–26.

Photo essay

“Adult Learning in the Labrador Moravian Brass Band Tradition”
Mark David Turner and Nainip Tittulautingit | Nain Brass Band. Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador, vol. 45, no. 1, 2021, pp. 61–62.

Magazine article

“Here is Where We See: Cinema, Academic Libraries, and Northern Community Intellectual Life”
Morgon Mills, Mark David Turner, Martha MacDonald and Ashlee Cunsolo. In Library and Information Studies for Arctic Social Sciences and Humanities, edited by Spencer Acadia and Marthe Tolnes Fjellsted. Routledge, 2020, pp. 153–171.

Book chapter | Details →

“Documenting Labrador West”
Labrador Life, vol. 14, no. 1, 2020, pp. 33–36.

Magazine article | Open access →

“Atlantic Films in Labrador”
Labrador Life, vol. 13, no. 3, 2019, pp. 34–38.

Magazine article | Open access →

“Early Films of the Labrador Inuit”
Labrador Life, vol. 13, no. 2, 2019, pp. 34–37.

Magazine article | Open access →

“Tittulausijattet Nainimi | Our Nain Brass Band”
Nainip Tittulautingit and Mark Turner. Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 28–31.

Magazine article

“Labrador Gallery: Brass Bands of Northern Labrador”
Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador, vol. 43, no. 1, 2019, pp. 32–37.

Photo essay

“A Short History of the Moravian Brass Bands of Northern Labrador”
Historic Brass Society Journal, vol. 30, 2018, pp. 37–62.

Journal article | Open access →

“Efficacy and Archival Practice in Nunatsiavut: A Case Study of the Rigolet Inuktut Living Archive”
PUBLIC, vol. 57, 2018, pp. 208–216.

Journal article | Details →

“Capturing the Falls: Labrador’s First Major Film-Making Expedition”
Labrador Life, vol. 12, no. 4, 2018, pp. 35–38.

Magazine article | Open access →

“Reviving a Rich History: Nain Brass Band Releases Debut Album”
Labrador Life, vol. 12, no. 1, 2018, pp. 30–32.

Magazine article | Open access →

“Choice: Echo Henoche, Shaman”
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 31, no. 2, 2018, pp. 20–21.

Magazine article | Details →

“Archival Repatriation”
Labrador Life, vol. 11, no. 4, 2017, pp. 31–33.

Magazine article | Open access →

“In Camera: Retrospective of Nigel Markham’s Labrador Films”
Labrador Life, vol. 11, no. 1, 2017, pp. 32–35.

Magazine article | Open access →

“Northern Archives, Northern Development”
The Hill Times Policy Briefing: The North, 2017, p. 22.

Op-ed | Details →

“Nunatsiavut’s Cinema”
Newfoundland Quarterly, vol. 109, no. 1, 2016, pp. 22–25.

Magazine article

“Homecoming”
Labrador Life, vol. 10, no. 1, 2016, pp. 17–21.

Magazine article | Open access →

Angry Inuk, by Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
Inuit Art Quarterly, vol. 29, no. 3, 2016, p. 48.

Review | Read online →

“A Revolution (Briefly) Embodied”
Luma, no. 002, 2015.

Essay | Open access →

“A Home for Rigolet Inuktut”
Mark Turner and Douglas Wharram. Labrador Life, vol. 9, no. 3, 2015, pp. 28–30.

Magazine article | Open access →

“An Introduction to Labrador Film Project 1969”
Them Days: Stories of Early Labrador, vol. 38, no. 1, 2014, pp. 4–11.

Magazine article

“The Tyranny of Absence: One Account of Archival Practice at the Fringe of the State”
In A Tyranny of Documents: The Performing Arts Historian as Film Noir Detective, edited by Stephen Johnson. Special issue of Performing Arts Resources, vol. 28, 2011, pp. 322–328.

Journal article | Details →

“Research For Production and Production as Research in Re-Living the Vita Futurista”
Justin Blum, Gabrielle Houle and Mark David Turner. In Futurist Dramaturgy and Performance, edited by Paul Stoesser. Legas, 2011, pp. 133–149.

Conference proceedings

The Radio Eye: Cinema in the North Atlantic, 1958–1988, by Jerry White
The Northern Review, no. 33, 2010, pp. 165–168.

Academic review | Open access →

“Rising Tide Theatre: Communication and Paradigm”
Canadian Theatre Review, vol. 140, 2009, pp. 20–25.

Journal article | Details →