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The Journals of Knud Rasmussen

Item number (ISN):

382091

Hierarchical level:

Item (Accession level)

Date:

2006

Item number (ISN):

382091

Type of material:

Moving images

Found in:

Archives / Film, Video and Sound

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Fonds/collection:

IGLOOLIK ISUMA PRODUCTIONS INC.

Accession:

2005-0303

Media:

Film

Part:

1 of 1

Production date:

2006

Production company:

International Version
Igloolik Isuma Productions Inc.
Kunuk Cohn Productions Inc.

Production credit:

director/producer/script/editing, Norman Cohn; director/producer/script, Zacharias Kunuk; editing, Cathrine Ambus; Félix Lajeuness; sound, Richard Lavoie; Natalie Fleurant; sound editing, Mario Choquette; France Leduc

Cast credit:

Leah Angutimarik, Pakak Innukshuk, Neeve Irngaut Uttak, Natar Ungalaaq, Jakob Cedergen, Kim Bodnia, Jens Jørn Spottag, Samueli Ammaq

Country of production:

cn

Distributor name:

Motion Picture Distribution LP

Description:

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THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN is a Canada-Denmark feature film co-production set in and around Canada's remote northeastern Arctic during the early years of the twentieth century. It tells the story of the last great Iglulik shaman by the name of Aua, and his beautiful headstrong daughter, Apak, who are faced with a difficult choice between the path of traditional shamanism and that of Christianity. The story starts in January of 1922 as Knud Rasmussen, a Danish-Greenlandic explorer/scientist, and his protege, a young anthropologist by the name of Therkel Mathiassen, visit a remote camp of the great shaman. To the explorers, Aua's camp looks like a heavenly oasis bursting with physical vigor and spiritual vitality, an arctic Garden of Eden distinguished by passionate generosity and joyful intelligence. What the Europeans fail to realize, however, is that, beside being faced with the challenges of weather-induced famine, this peaceful stronghold of beauty stands surrounded by the powerful forces of the new century - the introduction of the Inuit-language Christian holy books and the Western commerce culture that will irrevocably change Inuit life. Very soon, the isolated fortress of tranquility will become increasingly dependent on foreign trade goods and will have to face the first police investigation of a murder of a white man. THE JOURNALS OF KNUD RASMUSSEN is a profound and moving story of a culture forced to confront a changing world. It challenges the traditional filmic language of cause-effect narrativity and presents a fragmented mosaic/collage of image and sound, often implementing non-traditional devices such as direct mode of address and juxtaposition of extremes as seen in, for instance, directors' violent cuts between blinding, ice-reflected sunlight and close, lamp-lit darkness. <1h 52mn 53s>

Language:

Inuktitut / Danish / English

Notes:

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1. International distribution: Isuma Distributing International.~2. Produced with the financial particiption of Telefilm Canada; Canadian Television Fund created by the Government of Canada and Canadian cable industry (CTF: Licence Fee Program); Government of Canada - Canadian Film or Video Production Tax Credit; Government of Québec - Film and Television Tax Credit - Gestion SODEC; SODEC - Société de développement des entreprises culturelles, Québec.~3. Produced with the financial participation of Danish Film Institute; Nunavut Film; Nordisk Film and TV Fund; Greenland Home Rule; and NunaFonden.~4. Produced with the collaboration of DRAMA-TV; and Nunavut Independent TV Network.~5. Interim financing provided by National Bank of Canada.~6. This film is a Canada-Denmark co-production.

Genre:

DRAMA

Detailed holdings information:

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Vault ISN:

440226

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

V7 2007-07-0027

Vault code:

GAT

Number of items:

1

Kind of sound:

SOF

Duration:

112:53

Made from:

DEPOSIT

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1109794

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

382091.MXF

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-07-0027

Status:

MASTER

Vault ISN:

1109795

Format:

VIDEO

Location number:

382091.MP4

Number of items:

1

Made from:

V7 2007-07-0027

Status:

REF
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Conditions of access:

Open

Restrictions on consultation:

No Restrictions / Pas de restrictions

Copyright status:

Under copyright.

Copyright owner:

Copyright owner: Kunuk Cohn Productions Inc., 2006.~Copyright owner: Igloolik Isuma Production Inc., 2006.~Copyright owner: Barok Film A/S, 2006.

Reproduction access:

With written permissions / Avec les permissions écrites

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