#the journals of knud rasmussen

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Friday, August 04, 2023 Canadian TV Listings (Times Eastern)

WHERE CAN I FIND THOSE PREMIERES?: EVA THE OWLET (Apple TV+) WITNESS TO MURDER (A&E Canada) 9:00pm WOMEN ON DEATH ROW (A&E Canada) 10:00pm

WHAT IS NOT PREMIERING IN CANADA TONIGHT? SECRET CELEBRITY RENOVATION (CBS Feed)

NEW TO AMAZON PRIME CANADA/CBC GEM/CRAVE TV/DISNEY + STAR/NETFLIX CANADA:

AMAZON PRIME CANADA THE LOST FLOWERS OF ALICE HART MAMBA’S DIAMOND WNBA: ATLANTA DREAM AT PHOENIX MERCURY

CBC GEM CHATEAU DIY (Season 6) HEY DUGGEE (Season 2)

CRAVE TV 65 BLIZZARD THE CHI (Season 6, Episode 1 *Season 6 Premiere) THE DISHWASHER EAST HARBOUR HEROES (Season 1) GOOD MORNING CHUCK (Season 1) THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN MONKEY BEACH NATURAL BORN KILLERS ONE FLEW OVER THE CUCKOO’S NEST PACO RHYMES FOR YOUNG GHOULS SIMULANT SUPERBAD

DISNEY + STAR BULL SHARK BANDITS BULL SHARK VS. HAMMERHEAD THE RANDALL SCANDAL: LOVE, LOATHING, AND VANDERPUMP RETURN OF THE WHITE SHARK SAVED FROM A SHARK SHARK EAT SHARK

NETFLIX CANADA THE BIG NAILED IT BAKING CHALLENGE FATAL SEDUCTION (Volume 2)

ESPN THE OCHO!!!!! (TSN2) 1:00am: Stern Heads-Up Pinball Invitational 1:30am: USA Mullet Championships 2:00am: 2023 ACL Pro Shootout Championship 3:00am: Disc Golf Pro Tour Championship 4:00am: Marble Runs 4:30am: Financial Modeling World Championships 5:00am: 2023 Table Hockey World Championships 5:30am: Death Diving 6:00am: Teqball 6:30am: Auctioneer's Championship 7:00am: Microsoft Excel eSports: Elimination Race 7:30am: Truck and Tractor Pulling 8:00am: One Wheel World Championship 8:30 am: Arm Wrestling Reborn 9:00am: Extreme Axe & Knife Games 10:00am: Omegaball Women's Invitational 11:00am: Bullshooter 12:00pm: Omegaball Men's Invitational 1:00pm: Professional Cuesports League 2:00pm: Kickball Championship 3:00pm: The Ocho Show 4:00pm: 2023 Wiffleball All-Stars 5:00pm: Major League Table Tennis 6:00pm: Slippery Stairs 7:00pm: ACL World Championships 9:00pm: Viii Sports 10:00pm: Pillow Fighting Championship 11:00pm: 2023 FootGolf World Cup 11:30pm: Stein Holding Competition 12:00am: 2023 Corgi Races 12:30am: World Dog Surfing Championship 1:00am: Dodgeball All-Star Showcase 2:00am: 2023 Table Hockey World Championships 2:30am: Truck and Tractor Pulling

HLINKA GRETZKY CUP (TSN4) 1:00pm: Semifinal: Canada vs. United States (TSN5) 1:00pm: Semifinal: Czechia vs. Finland

MLB BASEBALL (SN1) 2:00pm: Atlanta vs. Cubs (SN) 7:00pm: Jays vs. Red Sox (SN Now) 7:00pm: Mets vs. Orioles (TSN3/TSN5) 8:00pm: Rays vs. Astros (SN1) 9:30pm: Dodgers vs. Padres

CEBL BASKETBALL (TSN5) 7:00pm: East Play-In - Brampton Honey Badgers vs. Scarborough Shooting Stars (TSN5) 9:00pm: West Play-In - Edmonton Stingers vs. Winnipeg Sea Bears

LEAGUES CUP SOCCER (TSN3) 8:30pm: Round of 32: Chicago vs Club America (TSN3) 10:30pm: Round of 32: Monterey vs. Portland

LEGENDS VS. MODERN ICONS (Cottage Life) 8:00pm: The competition kicks off with a cage match between the Colosseum, the ancient world's top arena, and Wembley Stadium, the most expensive football venue ever built; a look at their architectural features and which one offers the best fan experience.

CFL FOOTBALL (TSN4) 9:00pm: Argos vs. Stamps

GIANT POP-UP CONSTRUCTIONS (Cottage Life) 9:00pm/10:00pm (SERIES PREMIERE): Workers gather in India to build a railway underpass in just five hours; they battle stifling heat and deadly obstacles to reconnect the tracks and ensure they're safe before the first scheduled train roars through.

STIMULANT (Crave) 9:00pm: A humanoid A.I.'s attempt at winning a grieving widow's heart puts it in the path of a government agent trying to stop the rise of machine consciousness.

NATURAL BORN KILLERS: DIRECTOR'S CUT (Starz Canada) 9:00pm: Two young lovers (Woody Harrelson, Juliette Lewis) embark on a blood-drenched killing spree that quickly propels them to celebrity status.

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B. Urban filmovi sa prevodom - The Journals of Knud Rasmussen 2006

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Hold my non alcoholic beer, let me add to the shows (as a lazy ass Person, I shall copy paste from an old reddit post I made)

\~ Nautical theme \~

° War Sailor - Norwegian Netflix series about Merchant Sailors during WW2 - 4 Episodes

° Greyhound - Movie about an Atlantic Convoy during WW2

° Britannic - Movie that's very loosely based on the sinking of the HMHS Britannic

° Shattered City - The Halifax Explosion - Movie based on the Halifax Explosion cause by the ships Mount Blanc and Imo during WW1

° Master and Commander - Napoleonic War at sea, ost people have heard of that movie probably eitherway already

° Black Sails - 4 seasons of Pirates doing what pirates do best, do I need to say more?

° In the Heart of the Sea - Movie based on the Essex disaster

° Horatio Hornblower (several Movies) - pre-napoleonic war at sea

° Die Gustloff - German TV Production, based on the sinking of the MV Wilhelm Gustloff during WW2

° Die Männer der Emden - German TV production about the Journey of the crew of the SMS Emden during WW1

° To the Ends of the Earth - Jared Harris is captaining here again

°Der Untergang der Lusitania - German movie about the sinking of the Lusitania in WW1

\~ Cold Boys aka Polar Expeditions \~

° Nova Zembla - Dutch TV production about a Expedition in 1598 to find a North East Passage

° Shackleton - British TV production about Shackleton's failed Imperial Trans Antarctic Expedition

° Against the Ice - about two men that were left behind in Greenland during a danish expedition

° Amundsen - Roald Amundsen his life cut together into a Movie

° The North Water - the classic recommendation for The Terror fans, about a whaler that sinks in arctic and the crew trying to survive

° Arctic Convoy - Norwegian Netflix Movie about the Arctic Convoy during WW2

° Shackleton's Captain - docudrama that tells a different side of Shackleton's Imperial Trans Antarctic

° Flight of the Eagle - about Andrée's Arctic balloon expedition of 1897

° The last place on Earth - about the Race between Scott and Amundsen to the South Pole, it shows both sides

° The journals of Knud Rasmussen - Never found this movie, so from Wikipedia: "The film is about the pressures on traditional Inuit shamanistic beliefs as documented by Knud Rasmussen during his travels across the Canadian Arctic in the 1920s."

° Scott of Antarctica - Movie from the late 40s, about Scott his Terra Nova Expedition, some of the actual members of the Expedition actually saw this movie still

° Titina - Kids movie that follows Umberto Nobilles dog Titina

°The Worst Journey in the World - BBC docu-drama based on Cherries book

° The Greeley Expedition - it's a documentary, you can find it on YouTube

° Pionier der Arktis - Jean Baptiste Charcot - German documentary about Charcot (it's on YouTube but without subtitles)

°The Icebreaker - Russian movie about an icebreaker stuck on an iceberg

°Mission: Arctic - Russian movie about the polar explorer Bering

\~ There is Ice? \~

°Norwand (North Face) - German TV production about two mountaineers who tried to climb the Eiger North Face

°So weit die Füße tragen (As far as my feet will carry me) - German Movie about a German prisoner of war fleeing from a gulag and trying to find his way home through the cold of siberia

°Joyeux Noel (Merry Christmas) - movie about the Christmas Truce in 1914

\~ It has some ice and a ship \~

° Titanic - who hasn't heard of this one?

° A Night to remember - Titanic but approved by actual survivors

(There are more titanic movies, but I left it at the two best versions)

And an adventure movie that has a ship but no cold

° The incredible journey of Mary Bryant - about a woman who gets forcefully shipped to Australia for stealing bread, and her long way back to England again

I don't know if that List will help anybody, but here we are, also I am sure some of the movies are a far grab.

Oh also there is the first hand footage from terra nova, endurance and the Fram and the 20 more Shackleton movies I forgot about

I've been working on putting together something fun!

The current categories are: nonfiction books, fiction books, poetry, games/3d environments, music, and web resources. At present the nonfiction section is the beefiest, cobbled together from various tumblr posts (including one showing the research shelf of The Terror's writers' room!).

This is intended to be a living, crowd-sourced document. Please feel free to submit additions, comments, and questions via Tumblr asks or messages.

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Leah Angutimarik as Apak, in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen (2006)

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Natar Ungalaaq as Arnook (Yue’s Dad)

Man, I keep switching actors for Yue’s family! But Natar Ungalaaq’s face shape and cheekbones are just perfect for Arnook.

Natar Ungalaaq is an actor best known for playing Mukpullu in “Kabloonak” (1994), Tommy at “Trial at Fortitude Bay” (1994), Ootah in “Glory & Honor” (1998), Atanarjuat in “Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner” (2001), Jimmy Tarniq in “Sleep Murder” (2004), Nuqallaq in “The Journals of Knud Rasmussen” (2006), Tiivii in “The Necessities of Life” (2008), Tadlo in “Maïna” (2013), Noah in “Iqaluit” (2016), Pete in “The Grizzlies” (2018), and Big Turk in “Little Dog” (2019).

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Qaggiq: Gathering Place is opening @artmuseumuoft on September 17 at 6pm. This exhibition brings together video works by the internationally renowned Isuma artists’ collective. The Inuit production company’s activist works are part of the ongoing struggle to sustain Inuit futures in the massive transformation of the North through climate change. ⠀ ⠀ Presented by the Art Museum at the University of Toronto in partnership with the Toronto Biennial of Art (TBA) @torontobiennial. ⠀ ⠀ ⠀ Image: @isumatv, The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, 2006. © Isuma Distribution International. Courtesy of ISUMA and Vtape.⠀ ⠀ ⠀ #isuma #isumatv #torontoart #uoft #artmuseumuoft #universityoftoronto #videoart #inuitart #canadianart #contemporaryart #withthenorth #tobiennial19 #tiff2019 #TBA2019 #Qaggiq #spon — view on Instagram https://ift.tt/317cVo0

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Asinnajaq Weetaluktuk talks about curating ‘Channel 51: Igloolik’ exhibitions at Humber Galleries

This morning, I had the opportunity to interview Asinnajaq  (also known as Isabella Weetaluktuk) who is currently a guest curator at North Space; one of the two Humber Galleries located in Etobicoke. North Space, along with its sister gallery L Space (located on the lakeshore campus), are currently exhibiting film paraphernelia, historical objects, and artworks from the making of the film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner, directed by Inuit filmmaker Zacharias Kunuk. 

Atanarjuat was released in 2002 and won Camera D’Or (Golden Camera) at the Cannes Film Festival, as well as Best Film Award by the Canadian Screen Award; gaining huge critical success at a global level. Toronto International Film Festival named it ‘greatest Canadian film of all time’. Atanarjuat was made by Kunuk’s company Isuma Igloolik Productions, which employs Inuit actors and staff to create films made in Inuktitut language.  

Honoring the past while adapting to modernity, Kunuk turns a camera on histories that has been passed down by Inuit elders throughout generations of oral storytelling, employing many different voices to preserve culture through the media of filmmaking. 

Read my interview with Asinnajaq  below, as the young curator discusses with me the process of curating the shows, Zacharias Kunuk’s unique approach to filmmaking, her own experience with handling cultural history and identity, and contemporary lifestyles and traditions of the North. 

Could you tell me a bit about your background, growing up in Montreal, and how you came to be curator and filmmaker today?

My family is from Inukjuak, that is where all my family lives, but I was raised for the most part in Montreal with my brothers and parents. I guess they would say that I was always an artist. Eventually I went to an art school (NASCAD) and I remember some of my friends were getting into curating, and I thought to myself “I would never do that”. I think it is important with curating to be an artist as well, and I think I just became a curator because of Isuma. 

What was your experience working with Isuma Video Collective? 

I owe a lot of things to Isuma to figure out who I was, and learning about myself. I was able to work with them and they trusted me with their work. Isuma as a collective makes films and has never had an exhibition in an art gallery until last year, which was the first exhibition I did for them. I’m Inuk, and it is all Inuk content, and I am a filmmaker. I study film, I make film, and I understand film, which is where their work comes from. So I think on their part they wanted to celebrate the past 30 years of work they did, and it seemed it came naturally to do so at an art gallery. Films have lots of byproducts; including beautiful materials, photographs, and lots of things that are perfectly suited to have exhibitions in galleries, and to be shared. I became a curator because they asked me to.

What was your role as the guest curator of Channel 51: Igloolik at both North Space and L Space galleries? How did you see your suggestions and input play out? 

They’re very unique spaces.. Not a traditional gallery model... I felt the difficulty of crossing into the gallery spaces, from the university space. So the content we have for Isuma, we know what it’s going to be, and then we have to decide, is it photographs? Is it objects? Like we have jackets, if that included, is it not included? I prefer working that way, seeing the setting and deciding what goes in deciding on the setting. We can’t have the jackets because it’s not climate controlled…the jackets are fur, and they’ll start getting hot and falling apart and we don’t want them. 

The space at L is big and like a vitrine, and a transient space that you would walk through. So I decided that either you work with it, or try to challenge it. If we just have photographs, you move slowly through the space. So we have big photographs that you can kind of see from far, or you can come in closer and see them closer.

And you chose to enlarge the polaroids?  

We scanned them large because it makes them feel more like an art piece, and because there’s interesting writing on them, people want to come close to read them. The space feels like something you just want to move through, and maybe you want to have a large impact from far away.

Channel 51: Igloolik - Chill Zone at L Space is more cozy, and there are lots of students working... Sometimes you just need a space to linger...and I had the idea about the mediatheque. Often times, film festivals have mediatheques. If you can’t make it to the screening, that’s okay. You can still go to the mediatheque, and still go and watch it.

A mediatheque is similar to a library for films?

Yeah, if you really want to see a film, you don’t have to miss it. Also, the idea of autonomy and sovereignty…the viewers have their own choice, they have their own say in deciding what they want to see, and that they have the power. We also have books. Isuma has published maybe four or five books, and they’re also in the space. There’s an area, more than half the gallery, where you can come have tea, talk and read the books. There are a few art pieces in the space as well; there’s a blanket- or a wall hanging- which is made for a film that you can watch in the space, and also just a beautiful piece of artwork that shows different images that happened in stories of people who get adopted.

In Inuit culture, many people get adopted, it is a very regular part of life. It’s not unusual to have many family members who are adopted.

Speaking of family, what is your relationship with your name? And how do you envision your generation, and future ones, will carry forth the traditional Inuit ways of naming?

It is meant to keep those bonds, and though it may be different now, it still plays the same role. I think naming is really important to people in general.  I think in our family, the way of naming has changed a lot. I want to keep in line with all the people that lived before me, whereas many people are still doing that, but in a different way. For us, we would usually have one name, and lets say two hundred or three hundred years ago we had one name, and it is passed along in the family, but only after death. Now we have may names still honoring our family, but not one person, and not just after death. Part of it is different, part of it is the same.

What is the way they were naming in the past?

Let’s say you’re my grandma. When I have a kid, you would decide what the kid is named. Not the mother, not the father, you - the matriarch. The baby will be someone that is already been in the family, but has passed on. Maybe they passed away two years ago, or ten years ago, and you pick up the baby and go “Oh! It’s them”. Whomever is the head of the family decides, and nowadays babies are named two or three names. They may even be someone living in the family.

I was reading about the translation of the word ‘Isuma’ itself, which is the concept of the plurality of thought and rationality.  Each individual has their own Isuma, as opposed to the commonly objective, peer-reviewed Western philosophy of rationality. What is your personal definition of ‘Isuma’?

For me, it’s the cornerstone of the way I live my life. You always want to be thoughtful and thinking, and if you’re doing that then you’re always adapting. I think it’s about keeping yourself aware of your surroundings, and how to respond and behave in them in the most positive way. You have to be able to stay alert and figure out how to constantly empower yourself by staying …awake! (laughs). 

In Zachary Kunuk’s films, he uses a special approach of preserving culture through activating collective memory. For example, in The Journals of Knud Rasmussen, there is a reenactment of the switch from Shamanism to Christianity, and how that impacted Inuit communities. There are different voices in the film, sharing their authentic viewpoints. What do you think of this approach? Do you think collective memory prevents and protects the distortion of history?

I think part of the reason why he does it is because…It is memory on different levels. One level of it is for remembering and seeing the details of clothing or objects that surround us in our everyday life. In this instance, it’s not about a historical moment, but the way you sow your pants, and the way your pants connect with your boots. The second part is about relationships, what is the dynamic like, how does this father talk to the daughter, what is respect like. And then the last part is the historical event. Understanding what happened at this moment, what was going on in his life and his mind when he gave up his spirit guides? It touches all of us. The films have all of these levels, of our lives and our potential to be able to remember our history.

He also adds a touch of modernity to these depictions as well

Yeah, because that is definitely a part of our lives as well.

Do you believe adding an element of fiction in these films would be counterproductive or perhaps interfere with the message?

I think every film is fiction at some level, even documentaries…You are closing off a space and isolating yourself to reenact this. With these films they are doing their best to show things as they were and tell stories, so I’m not sure how fiction could fit into them. So I guess it would be difficult to add fiction, and also difficult to keep it out, at the same time.

How natural was it for you to learn about your cultural history while living in the city? Was it passed down to you by elders or did you have to seek it out?

I grew up with learning parts of it, but not as much as I’ve learned in the past five years. I’ve learned more about my cultural history and cultural presence now than I had for the rest of my life. At the same time, it was never hidden away from me, or never not a part of me. I always visit my home and family, but had not necessarily learned about singing or stuff that I may have learned about if I had grown up in the North.

At the same time, even if you had grown up in the North, in an Inuit village, you can still go without learning the language or anything really. You still have to seek it and have a family that teaches it. The thing about colonization is that it continues doing its job unless people stop it, and critically think about what is going on. There are people who have to still decolonize themselves, and are still removing themselves from their cultural beliefs. So it’s still possible to still grow up not learning anything.

What comes to your mind when you hear the words ‘decolonial filmmaking aesthetics’?

I have never described my work as such, though I do think some people are more theoretical and like to use the phrase. I think part of it is because…if you are just in the mindset and you know your cultural beliefs and live your life by them, then any part of your life will be guided by them. If it’s the way you eat, or dress, or the way you talk to someone, or make your films, it’s not something you think about. If it’s decolonial, it’s because my mind is in the mindset of addressing whatever needs to be decolonized.

Do you believe film documentation is headed down a direction where it will become as sacred as the word of an elder? Will the need to film our present selves for the future interfere with the tradition of sitting down with an elder and hearing these stories orally?

I think that people live in so many different ways…For the benefit for people who grow up in a myriad of possible circumstances and for the benefit of the understanding for outsiders, there’s always going to be something beneficial about making these videos and it’s also important to encourage being on the land, and talking to people- real, live people. I think they both have their space, and it’s a really good point to be aware of. How do I both make my film work, and encourage people to keep talking face-to-face? (laughs)

At a certain level you need both, at least at this time. I hope…it could be nice if in the future we didn’t have to make films… I mean I love making them, but we make them for a reason, because there’s a problem. And if the problem doesn’t exist, that’s also great.

Zacharias’s films bring Inuit lifestyles and stories to a global stage. What stereotypes have you personally encountered about the North, and would like to see addressed in future film projects?

The thing I’m confronted with most is people thinking we live in igloos, and have sled dogs, and it’s like…It wouldn’t be a bad thing if we live that way, but we just don’t…there’s internet. ‘Don’t you Google anything?’ You can see that we dress the same way as you. The hardest thing is people thinking we live in a different time... No, we’re living in the present time.

What advice would you give young emerging Inuit visual artists who want to transition from traditional media (drawing, prints, sculpture) to experimenting with moving image? 

I live in many different media in my life and with artworks, so I think format and media that you choose has to be in line with the message that you choose. Not everything is a film, some things are a film. Not everything is a painting, some things are a painting. Really try to pay attention to the media and the best way to get the idea across…Sometimes I see a film and I think, “That’s a play! Why didn’t you make it into a play?” or “That’s a film script, and that could’ve been a film, but it’s not reaching its full potential”. What is the best way to say it? I would tell someone, do it, but make sure it fits, because you need to maximize the potential.

This comes back to the idea of Isuma then, the concept of being mindful about what you are creating or doing?

Yeah, exactly.

Lastly, is there anything you would like to add in closing about your experience as the guest curator of the exhibitions?

Yeah, I’d like to acknowledge that it wasn’t just me curating the show, I bring the first initial idea and an idea for the setup, and then all of the staff at Humber is able to have their say, and their suggestions. We were all able to have input in it, and that was really special and that they agreed to do it that way, and I just wanted to acknowledge that collaboration. Also the collaboration with the Aboriginal resource center and helping to inform what content should be in the shows.

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Isuma collective will be representing Canada at the Venice Biennale 2019!

Watch IsumaTv films here

Channel 51: Igloolik exhibitions will run at Humber Galleries from March 5th to April 12th

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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen | Norman Cohn, Zacharias Kunuk | 2006