Articles, Essays, Reviews

Maps are orders marching men to old places already seen Maps conjure memories of spoil, of plunder and innocence Maps are journeys to illusions no one has learned from Maps are critical revisits with visions, vistas and never before seen repeats

It Was Not 'Jajai-ja-jiijaaa Anymore - But 'Amen'It was in the guise of the Holy Spirit That they swooped down on the tundra Single-minded and determined To change forever the face Of ancient SpiritualsThese lawless missionaries from places unknown

The strangers from Greenland sit in the snow house of Avva, a shaman.  Avva introduces his family to the visitors. The scene is tense, with silences that are awkward or watchful.  Avva puffs on his pipe.

The End and the Beginning I made a trip across the largest lakeI’ve ever seento where the long noses live.There on the hillBoulders satin a Talking Circle.I walked around and gave tobacco.They squeezed their stone-ground hands

There are some films that stay with us forever, the characters alive within us, like spirit beings.

An extended interview with Zacharias Kunuk conducted in Igloolik in 2004 by Joysanne Sidimus, originally printed in her book, Reflections in a Dancing Eye: Investigating the Artist's Role in Canadian Society.

We have been asked: Who is the intended audience for The Journals of Knud Rasmussen?