Unikkausivut sharing our stories = transmettre nos histoires

DVD 2011

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.

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Explore Topics & Themes:

Inuit Canada Folklore

Inuit Canada Social life and customs

Inuit Religion

Legends Arctic regions

Oral tradition Arctic regions

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Animated films Courts métrages Dessins animés Documentaires Documentary films Feature films Longs métrages Short films Video recordings

Part of a Series:

Arctic notebook Arctic notebook ; no. 1

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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
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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)

Control Number:

1004131

Other Authors:

Arnaquq-Baril, Alethea
Bisailon, Yves
Bonnière, René, 1928-
Boulton, Laura, 1899-1980
Brown, Quentin
Budgell, Anne
Feeney, John
Flaherty, Martha
Greenwald, Barry
Hart, Roger
Heczko, Bozenna
Hoedeman, Co
Inuit Broadcasting Corporation
Isaac, Elisapie
Lamothe, Nicole
Leaf, Caroline
Lepage, Marquise
Markham, Nigel
Michael, Mosha
National Film Board of Canada
Obomsawin, Alanis
Oh, Guy
Papatsie, Ame
Radford, Tom, 1946-
Raymont, Peter
Reed, Patrick
Wilkinson, Douglas, 1919-2008
Wright, Jonathan, 1978-

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