About
Rose Iqallijuq tells her intrauterine memories, and even before, when she was her eponymous grandfather, Savviurtalik, in his grave made of snow blocks. At that moment, Savviurtalik wanted to be reincarnated in the family of their daughter. They tell us that they were nothing but a soul with the appearance of an old man, that they went out of their grave and walked towards the igloo where lived their daughter Nuvvijaq with her family. In this film Rose Iqallijuq recounts all she remembers from her birth, her childhood as a transvestite, until she wore woman's clothes for the first time.
IQALLIJUQ (1973)
Recollections of an Inuit name-soul; Iqallijuq is telling in Inuktitut of her intra-uterine memories.
16mm colour movie with synchronous Inuktitut sound
13 minutes
Director: B. Saladin d‘Anglure.
Interviewer : Alexina Kublu.
Camera and sound : Philippe Legrand of audiovisual services at Université Laval
Shot in Igloolik, NU, summer 1973
Edited with the collaboration of Association Inuktsiutiit and audiovisual services at Université Laval
Drawings : Léah Idlout d’Argencourt after Iqallijuq’s descriptions.
