IAF + imagineNATIVE

In commemoration and celebration of 30 years of Inuit video art production by the Isuma and Arnait Video production companies, the Inuit Art Foundation was delighted to sponsor the screening of Channel 51 Igloolik on October 19, 2017, as part of the 18th annual imagineNATIVE Film + Media Arts Festival in Toronto, ON. Guest curated by Isabella Weetaluktuk, the shorts program featured retrospective works Qulliq (Oil Lamp) (1993), Aqtuqsi (My Nightmare) (1996), Unikausiq (Stories) (1996) and Issaituq (Waterproof) (2007), as well as the world premiere of Bowhead Whale Hunting with My Ancestors (2017), the latest work by Zacharias Kunuk, OC. Co-directed by Carol Kunnuk, the documentary follows a 2016 hunt in the community. The film program was complemented with the companion exhibition Channel 51 Igloolik: The Filmmaking Process, presented at the Trinity Square Video, also curated by Weetaluktuk.