Pirruvik Circumpolar Shorts (Program 1)

This screening took place on Monday, June 27, 2022 at 12:30 pmYukon Theatre

An Arctic Arts Summit free public event. 3 days of screenings between 12pm and 5pm with different programs each day.

Program 1 screens at 12:30pm, 1:45pm and 3pm

Spirit Emulsion Siku Allooloo, Yukon 2022, 8 minutes
Pandemic at the End of the World Alan Code, Yukon, 2020, 13 minutes
Breaths Nyla Innuksuk, Nunavut  2016, 4 minutes
Nunavik Vistas: InukShop Jobie Weetaluktuk, Nunavik, 2009 2 minutes
Nalujuk Night Jennie Williams, Nunatsialuit/ N+L, 2021, 13 minutes
Dene Drum Songs in Gahni hthah Jonathan Antoine, NWT, 2021 11 minutes 
Suodji Marja Helander, Finland, 2020 5 minutes
How's Life? (Mo dieppe) Ánne Márjá Guttorm Graven, Sergey Gavrilov, RUS/NOR, 5 minutes
Svonni vs Skatteverket Maria Fredrikson, Sweden, 5 minutes
Deep Ocean Berda Larson/Ulannaq Ingemann, Greenland 4 minutes

Curated by Jeremy Emerson and organized by Western Arctic Moving Pictures and the Inuit Art Foundation with support from Telefilm Canada, this dynamic short film program includes work from all participating Arctic nations and northern regions of Canada. The title, pirruvik, refers to the circle of stones that anchor a tent to the ground. Over 50 shorts ranging from one to 12 minutes in length will be playing throughout the Summit.

Spirit Emulsion
A woman’s connection to her mother in the spirit world reactivates Taíno culture and presence, revealing a realm unseen. Filmed on Super 8 and developed by hand with plant medicines and botanicals, Spirit Emulsion develops a language for Taíno filmmaking based in the earth and cosmos, and in so doing, breathes an ancestral connection into new form. Written, directed, and co-produced by Siku Allooloo (Inuk/Haitian/Taíno).

Pandemic at the end of the world
The Covid pandemic strikes a tragically familiar chord for the Inuvialuit of the Mackenzie River Delta. In the early 19th century John Franklin and his crew infected their ancestors with deadly smallpox. Other devastating epidemics would follow. Historian Randal Pokiak returns to the ancient site of Kitigaaruk, a community abandoned after the great flu epidemic of 1918, to deliver a vivid cautionary tale.

Breaths
In this evocative short documentary, Inuk singer-songwriter and humanitarian Susan Aglukark weaves together stories of artistry, family, and belonging as she explores the complex cultural shifts of the last 50 years of Inuit life. Turning her lens on the turbulence of colonial transition, director Nyla Innuksuk examines the forces that shaped Aglukark's voice and how that voice is now being translated for a new generation of Inuit artists.

Vistas: InukShop
In this short film, filmmaker Jobie Weetaluktuk mixes archival and new footage to make a statement about the appropriation of Inuit culture throughout history.

Nalujuk Night
Nalujuk Night is an up close look at an exhilarating, and sometimes terrifying, Labrador Inuit tradition. Every January 6th from the dark of the Nunatsiavut night, the Nalujuit appear on the sea ice. They walk on two legs, yet their faces are animalistic, skeletal, and otherworldly. Snow crunches underfoot as they approach their destination: the Inuit community of Nain. Despite the frights, Nalujuk Night is a beloved annual event, showing that sometimes it can be fun to be scared. Rarely witnessed outside of Nunatsiavut, this annual event is an exciting chance for Inuit, young and old, to prove their courage and come together as a community to celebrate culture and tradition.

Dene Drum Songs in Gahnı̨hthah
A short documentary on the Dene Drum in Gahnı̨hthah (Rabbitkettle).

Suodji (Shelter)
North Sámi with English subtitles
Shelter (Suodji) is a short film adaptation of an old story from Utsjoki, Sápmi, to the present. It is a legend of what the director's relative, Ovllá-Ivvár Helander, did during the Spanish flu epidemic in 1918 in Utsjoki. Ovllá decided to fool Death and take his fate into his own hands. Presented in partnership with the International Sami Film Institute.

How's Life? (Mo dieppe)
North Sámi, subtitles in English.
During corona times two friends meet at Zoom to catch up, Sergey in Lovozero (on the Russian side of the border) and Ánne Márjá in Lødingen (on the Norwegian side of the border). They haven’t met in a long time, and it seems like it will be long before they meet again. They have a lot to talk about. Presented in partnership with the International Sami Film Institute.

Svonni vs Skatteverket
Sámi/Swedish w English subtitles | Documentary Short
Svonni vs Skatteverket is a feisty and charming portrait of a Sámi woman who tries to convince the Swedish Tax Agency that she has the right to make a tax deduction for the purchase of a dog. A humorous look at cultural clashes and the struggle to practice Sámi culture in today’s Sweden.

ZIKA - Deep Ocean
Music Video featuring the Greenlandic Inuit artist, Zika.