One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

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In April 1961, John Kennedy is America’s new President, the Cold War heats up in Berlin and nuclear bombers are deployed from bases in arctic Canada. In Kapuivik, north Baffin Island, Noah Piugattuk’s nomadic Inuit band live and hunt by dog team as his ancestors did when he was born in 1900. When the white man known as Boss arrives at Piugattuk’s hunting camp, what appears as a chance meeting soon opens up the prospect of momentous change. Boss is an agent of the government, assigned to get Piugattuk to move his band to settlement housing and send his children to school so they can get jobs and make money. But Kapuivik is Piugattuk’s homeland. He takes no part in the Canadian experience; and cannot imagine what his children would do with money.

One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk opens at the Canadian Pavillion of the Biennale de Venezia 2019, as a 4K digital video installation, 112 minutes, Inuktitut-English 2019

 

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One Day in the Life of Noah Piugattuk

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    • 9m 42s

      Noah Piugattuk (Interview 1)

      uploaded by: IsumaTV

      channel: Noah Piugattuk Interviews

      Noah Piugattuk was born in 1900 and lived to be 96 years old. He spent most of his life living a traditional Inuit life on the land and over the course of his lifetime saw the decline of traditional practices that had persisted for thousands of years and the creation of a new relationship with the Canadian colonial state.

      In this interview, Noah talks about climate and hunting.

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      uploaded date: 01-05-2019

    • Noah Piugattuk (Interview 3)

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      channel: Noah Piugattuk Interviews

       Noah Piugattuk was born in 1900 and lived to be 96 years old. He spent most of his life living a traditional Inuit life on the land and over the course of his lifetime saw the decline of traditional practices that had persisted for thousands of years and the creation of a new relationship with the Canadian colonial state.

      In this interview, Noah talks about hunting whales.

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      uploaded date: 01-05-2019

    • 19m 55s

      Noah Piugattuk (Interview 5)

      uploaded by: dandietzel

      channel: Noah Piugattuk Interviews

      Noah Piugattuk was born in 1900 and spent most of his life living a traditional Inuit life on the land. In this interview, Noah talks about constructing kayaks.

      A project of Kingulliit Productions and NITV with thanks to IBC.

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      uploaded date: 01-05-2019

    • 8m 47s

      Noah Piugattuk (Interview 13)

      uploaded by: IsumaTV

      channel: Noah Piugattuk Interviews

      Noah Piugattuk was born in 1900 and lived to be 96 years old. He spent most of his life living a traditional Inuit life on the land and over the course of his lifetime saw the decline of traditional practices that had persisted for thousands of years and the creation of a new relationship with the Canadian colonial state.

      In this interview, Noah talks about Inuit games.

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      uploaded date: 01-05-2019

    • 19m 51s

      Noah Piugattuk (Interview 14)

      uploaded by: IsumaTV

      channel: Noah Piugattuk Interviews

      Noah Piugattuk was born in 1900 and lived to be 96 years old. He spent most of his life living a traditional Inuit life on the land and over the course of his lifetime saw the decline of traditional practices that had persisted for thousands of years and the creation of a new relationship with the Canadian colonial state.

      … Read more

      uploaded date: 01-05-2019

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