The Arviat Film Society Arviat is a predominantly Inuit city in the high western Arctic, and the third largest in Canada’s newest province, Nunavut. For more than two years, a group of volunteer Inuit youth in the community has dedicated time and energy to create multi-media projects aimed at investigating, […]
Canada • cultural heritage • culture • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • Inuit • Media: Film • Nunavut • research • video • youthThe Arviat Film Society: Indigenous Youth Document History from an Inuit Perspective
The Arviat Film Society Arviat is a predominantly Inuit city in the high western Arctic, and the third largest in Canada’s newest province, Nunavut. For more than two years, a group of volunteer Inuit youth in the community has dedicated time and energy to create multi-media projects aimed at investigating, […]
Canada • cultural heritage • culture • culture | preservation • indigenous / traditional knowledge • indigenous communities • Inuit • Media: Film • Nunavut • research • video • youthTen Canoes: too much to fit…
“From almost the beginning, there were too many things that too many people wanted for them all to fit in just one feature film.” This is not so much a sell for the movie (released in 2006), but a brief introduction the possibilities Indigenous film can have within a given […]
Arnhem Land • elder • indigenous / traditional knowledge • Media: Film • Ramingining • Ten Canoes • tribal law • YolnguProblematizing Indigenous Aesthetics
In 1966, Sol Worth (professor of Communication from the Annenberg School for Communications at the University of Pennsylvania) and John Adair (professor of Anthropology at San Francisco State University) set out to find “what kind of visual and temporal style and aesthetics might [the] Navajo use if they were trained […]
2009 • colonization / colonialism • indigenous aesthetics • Media: Film • Native American • Navajo