About
My goal with this film was to illustrate how the caribou occupied a prominent place in the traditional life of the Inuits of northern Nunavik and in all of Nunavik before the species all but disappeared during the Second World War, or perhaps a little earlier. The virtual disappearance of the caribou meant that the Inuits found them only with great difficulty. They had to travel a great distance towards the forests, where there was a larger type of caribou, the woodland caribou, and some of those caribou migrating into Nunavik, towards the tree line.
TUTTUJAQ (1971)
About the importance of caribou in the traditional life of northern Nunavik Inuit.
16 mm colour movie (silent)
20 minutes
Director: B. Saladin d’Anglure
Camera: B. Saladin d’Anglure
Shot in Puvirnituq in October 1971
With the assistance of Jimmy Innaarulik Mark, Interpreter, transcriber, translator and filming support from Sylvie Pharand, Masters in anthropology candidate, Université Laval
Inuit participants: Nelly PUTUGUQ, JUANASIALUK, Juanasi (age 6), Maina ALASUAQ, her brother Timothy, Ali the baby and Lili the little girl, Luisa QILURQI, SAUNIQ and Saima (child).
Off-line editing: Philippe Laugrand of audiovisual services at Université Laval, and the film team with the support of the director
Funding: CNRS, Canada Council for the Arts, Canadian Museum of Civilization and Département des affaires culturelle du Québec.
