Platform for experimental and anthropological film,
sound, and landscape cinema.
sound, and landscape cinema.
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Zacharias Kunuk
Zacharias Kunuk is an Inuk filmmaker. His work focuses on the themes of Indigenous identity, cultural preservation, and the impacts of colonialism. Kunuk worked as a soapstone carver until 1981, when he sold three sculptures in Montreal to buy a video camera and a 27” TV; he then brought them back to Igloolik, a settlement of 500 Inuit who had voted twice to refuse access to outside television. Kunuk co-founded Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc., which produced films such as “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner” (2001), the first feature film to be entirely spoken in Inuktitut.