As part of the Canadian Classics Screening Series, the Vancouver International Film Centre is screening Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner. Actor, filmmaker and well-known Inuit sculptor Natar Ungalaaq will be in attendance.
Details:
Vancouver International Film Centre (Vancity Theatre)
1181 Seymour Street (corner Davie Street)
April 19, 2007 at 7:30 pm
http://www.academy.ca/events/screenclassics07.cfm
Atanarjuat – The Fast Runner is based on an ancient Inuit legend which takes place in the area around Igloolik. You can follow the detailed story of the film while tracing the location of events on a map of the region at the Atanarjuat website.
Related Readings:
Angilirq, P.A., & Cohn, N. (2002). Atanarjuat : the fast runner. Toronto: Coach House Books.
This screenplay is in both Inuktitut and English, and includes ethnographic commentary written specially for the book by Bernard Saladin D’Anglure.
Bessire, L. (2003). Talking back to primitivism: Divided audiences, collective desires. American Anthropologist, 105(4), 832-838.
Ginsburg, F. (2003). Atanarjuat off-screen: From ‘media reservations’ to the world stage. American Anthropologist, 105(4), 827-831.
Huhndorf, S. (2003). Atanarjuat, the fast runner: Culture, history, and politics in inuit media. American Anthropologist, 105(4), 822-826.
Siebert, Monika. (2006). Atanarjuat and the ideological work of contemporary indigenous filmmaking. Public culture, 18 (3), 531-550.