Argentine Signal
An adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.
45'
IFFR 2020
In 1961, Inuit hunters in the Arctic were visited by 'the Boss', a Canadian civil servant who brought sugar and biscuits. An interpreter relays the actual message to the eldest of the hunters, Noah Piugattuk: in order for them to get an allowance for their children, Canadian law will force every Inuit to live in a settlement. During a painful dialogue, the Boss makes it clear that they will have to relinquish their nomadic lifestyle to move to the prefab village of Igloolik.
The filmmakers' collective Isuma, comprised of Inuit from Igloolik, shot this powerful film on the endless snowfields of Baffin Island from the Inuit perspective in order to shape their own history. Director Kunuk (Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner) has family who were part of Piugattuk's camp. The Inuit who had to give up their autonomy in the 20th century have now found their own, imaginative manner of telling the world this story.
IFFR 2020
Programme IFFR 2020
This programme brings together work by film and art collectives that decentralise the mainstream narrative by providing us with alternative histories, presenting other ways of working and other ways of seeing.
Read more about this programmeAn adventurous performance where analogue projectors and film reels meet with amplified video signals.
45'
IFFR 2020
Documentary about The Ummah Chroma made by alumni from the Ghetto Film School, making their debut as a collective with this film.
9'
USA
IFFR 2020
The cosmic journey of sacred youth, during which pain, pleasure and sublimation are non-negotiable.
22'
USA
IFFR 2020