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Unikkausivut sharing our stories = transmettre nos histoires
2011

DVD

In this documentary you will discover Inuit traditions, perspectives and values in these 24 films, representing all four Canadian Inuit regions (Nunatsiavut, Nunavik, Nunavut and Inuvialuit). Experience over eight hours of unique documentay and animation from 1942 to the present, selected from the world's largest collection of films by and about the Inuit.

Item Details

Description:

  • 6 videodiscs (8 hr.) : sound, color & black and white ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 guide (15, 15 p. : illustrations ; 19 cm) + 1 folded map.
  • digital
  • optical
  • video file
  • DVD video

Target Audience Note: CHVR: not rated.

Other Title:

  • Sharing our stories [DVD]
  • Title in French: Unikkausivut [DVD] : transmettre nos histoires
  • Title in Inuktitut: Unikkausivut [DVD] : AtuKatigennik Unikkausittinik

Notes:

  • Documentary films.
  • "A National Film Board of Canada initiative, in partnership with Nunavut ... Department of Education ... Aboriginal Affairs and Northern Development Canada, Inuit Relations Secretariat"--back of container.
  • Set includes discs 1-3 in English and French, discs [4-6] containing the same films in Inuktitut, 1 booklet "Unikkausivut", 1 booklet "Unikkausivut ... Films from the box set", and 1 map "Inuit Nunangat".
  • Directors, Douglas Wilkinson, John Feeney, Laura Boulton, René Bonnière, Quentin Brown, Co Hoedeman, Caroline Leaf, Roger Hart, Bozenna Heczko, Mosha Michael, Alanis Obomsawin, Anne Budgell, Nigel Markham, Barry Greenwald, Elisapie Isaac, Patrick Reed, Tom Radford, Peter Raymont, Marquise Lepage, Guy Oh, Jonathan Wright, Ame Papatsie, Alethea Arnaquq-Baril.
  • Narrators, Martha Flaherty, Charles Keelan.
  • DVD.
  • In French, English and Inuktitut.

Contents:

  • Disc 1. Ethnographic films, the Flaherty influence: tales and legends: How to build an igloo (10:27)
  • The living stone (34:14)
  • Eskimo summer (15:31)
  • The Annanacks (29:12)
  • Stalking seal on the spring ice: part 1 & 2 (24:31)
  • The owl and the lemming: an Eskimo legend (5:59)
  • The owl and the raven: an Eskimo legend (6:39)
  • The owl who married a goose: an Eskimo legend (7:38).
  • Disc 2. The rumblings of a new Inuit and activist cinema: Labrador North (37:30)
  • Pictures out of my life (13:09)
  • Lumaaq: an Eskimo legend (7:55)
  • Natsik hunting (7:52)
  • Canada vignettes: Vignettes from Labrador North (4:00) ; June in Povungnituk, Quebec Arctic (1:00)
  • The last days of Okak (23:48)
  • Between two worlds (57:50).
  • Disc 3. The growth of the Inuit filmmaking. If the weather permits (27:51)
  • I, Nuligak: an Inuvialuit history of first contact (1:09:44)
  • Martha of the North (1:23:00)
  • I am but a little woman (4:39)
  • The bear facts (3:58)
  • Qalupalik (Qallupilluk) (5:34)
  • Lumaajuuq (7:36).

Publisher or Distributor Number:

  • 155108603011
  • 155108603012
  • 155108603013
  • 155108603021
  • 155108603022
  • 155108603023

Control Number: 1004131

Publisher: Quebec : National Film Board of Canada, 2011.
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