#Maliglutit (Searchers)

[teledyn]

MALIGLUTIT (SEARCHERS) Trailer

[arcticmuseum]

Tomorrow is International Polar Bear Day! This year we want to raise awareness about polar bears and their warming climate as usual, but we also want to draw attention to the *people* who call the Arctic home, and the amazing work they do! In celebration of the North, tomorrow we are showing Zacharias Kunuk & Natar Ungalaaq's feature film, Maliglutit (Searchers).

More details here: https://www.bowdoin.edu/calendar/event.html?bid=1016482&rid=114577

[spectrumtacular]

Maliglutit | Searchers (Zacharias Kunuk, 2016)

[beyond-en-scene]

I don’t know if it’s just extra chilly today, or if I’m a bit movie-d out, or because last night I slept more than I have for weeks, so I’m in a strange head space, or, and most probably, it’s the time I spend with someone recently that made me a bit unsure of my place in the world.  In one sense, this feeling is good. Self-reflection and discontentment is healthy. Becoming less ignorant of your own action means you’re growing up, right?. But at the same time, shouldn’t one feel wiser and more confident as one gets older? And here I am, feeling like I’m going backwards. 5 years ago today, I didn’t give a shit. I thought I was “the shit”. Now I feel like I’m being punished for giving a shit. Is being more mature synonymous with being more open to suffering? Recently, I saw two beautiful films set in the freezing snow - Maliglutit (Searchers) by Zacharias Kunuk, and Taylor Sheridan’s directorial debut, Wind River. It’s a setting I’ve always loved. Any character that steps out from inches of snow is a survivor of some kind, and thus instantly more interesting. When something as simple as putting on your footwear correctly can signify the difference between life and death, your actions become more instinct-driven, and there’s less bullshit. What does cloud your vision is the harsh unforgiving physical world. Humans are comfort creatures, we like soft things to lie on and right angles to sit on. Hearing howling wind and seeing endless white is not something we’re meant to experience day after day. Sooner or later, it’s going to fuck with your head. And with that comes the drama that sets in motion both of these fascinating films. Iike I said, I’m really drawn to the snow, but my last name literally mean “warmth”. Learning what I want and what I need is a lesson I continue to learn.

[scarecrow-is-my-boyfriend]

Searchers, a reimagining of the John Ford film, is a slow burn. But the kidnapped wife, Ailla, brings the film to life for me. She will kick and punch and pull her attacker's hair, she will untie the knots as he ties them, she will run away while he sleeps, she will take the hot tea asked for and throw it in his face. I want to see more of her in movies.

[falkenscreen]

MALIGLUTIT

You don’t need a dozen state of the art cameras to produce a good film, you just need a good place to point one.

The equipment reportedly covered in sheepskin for the north-Canadian shoot in well-below freezing temperatures, Maliglutit, in part not dissimilar to John Ford’s seminal western The Searchers, follows an Inuit man who returns to his home to discover his wife and daughter have been kidnapped.

Pursuing three Inuit men over the transfixing landscape, Maliglutit’s strength is not so much drawn from its straightforwardly compelling three-act structure but the more contemplative moments scattered throughout the film, as the Directors Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq allow the lens to rest on any number of spellbinding sites and vistas.

Whether sledding across a vast expanse, patiently plying away at daily chores or preparing for a night ensconced in shelters, themselves not a respite from the chilling conditions all too evident on the actors’ frozen faces, the lack of jump-cuts and selective use of music overloads the audience not with the likes of suspense stock-standard in dramas but the more measured, striking tones of a film that is in every sense irrevocably raw.

Set in the early 20th century, Maliglutit may as well be timeless; the lack of direct references to the precise time and place of the film itself conveying an arresting, roundly universal narrative of a man in desperate search of his family. Lacking the powerful story-arc or iconic features that made The Searchers such a success, from which Maliglutit clearly draws no small degree of inspiration, the film is nonetheless engaging for its patient perusal of a life unfamiliar to many, it’s most powerful moments resonating both from dramatic developments and the more subtlety compelling exchanges between characters navigating the terrain, or otherwise going about their lot alone.

As insightful as it is eye-catching, you won’t be want to turn your gaze from the screen and the film’s many riveting visuals. Thankfully, the filmmakers knew just when, and how sparingly, to temper the view.

Maliglutit is screening at the Sydney Film Festival – for tickets head to theFestival website

[tarstarkasnet]

Maliglutit (Review)

Maliglutit aka Searchers 2016 Written by Norman Cohn and Zacharias Kunuk Directed by Zacharias Kunuk and Natar Ungalaaq SFIFF fun continues with my first ever visit to the BAMPFA – Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive – for the Inuktitut-language film Maliglutit! I didn’t have time to enjoy the rest of the museum as I had to grab some lunch and then BART it back to San Francisco to make…

[halifaxnoise]

http://ift.tt/2pzavwE there's a semi secret daytime film festival happening this week!? checkout coveyonfilm.net for more details. ——— Halifax screenings this week: . Monday (May 1) — Window Horses: The Poetic Persian Epiphany of Rosie Ming, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 3pm, free. Ann Marie Fleming, 2016, Canada, 89 minutes. . Tuesday (May 2) — It’s Only the End of the World, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 3pm, free. Xavier Dolan, 2016, Canada/France, 99 minutes. . Wednesday (May 3) — Old Stone (Lao Shi), Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 3pm, free. Johnny Ma, 2016, Canada/China, 80 minutes. . Thursday (May 4) — Werewolf, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 3pm, free. Ashley McKenzie, 2016, Canada, 79 minutes. . — Hello Destroyer, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 7pm, free. Kevan Funk, 2016, Canada, 110 minutes. . Friday (May 5) — Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 1pm, free. Mathieu Denis & Simon Lavoie, 2016, Canada, 183 minutes. . Saturday (May 6) — Canada On Screen Shorts Programme 1, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 1pm, free, 95 minutes. . — Angry Inuk, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 3pm, free. Alethea Arnaquq-Baril, 2016, Canada, 82 minutes. . Sunday (May 7) — Canada On Screen Shorts Programme 2, Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 1pm, free, 79 minutes. . — Maliglutit (Searchers), Windsor Foundation Lecture Theatre @ AGNS, 3pm, free. Zacharias Kunuk, 2016, Canada, 94 minutes. http://ift.tt/2qm8ZRc