NFB Collection
The Man and the Giant: An Eskimo Legend
19757 min 33 secFilm: Fiction
Direction: Co Hoedeman
Production: Pierre Moretti
Co-produced by the NFB and Indian and Northern Affairs.
A hunter is pursued, bound up and carried to a cave in this legend of a river and of how fog came to the land. The story is enacted by Inuit using katadjak or throatsinging. The audience is locked in an alien world of sights and sounds where human activity seems propulsed by primeval forces.
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Subject categories
- Literature and Language > Indigenous Traditional Stories
- Literature and Language - Canada > Inuit Traditional Stories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Traditional stories
- Indigenous Studies > Arts
Credits
- director
- Co Hoedeman
- producer
- Pierre Moretti
- camera
- André-Luc Dupont
- editing
- Richard Robesco
- sound editing
- Richard Robesco
- re-recording
- Michel Descombes
- music
- Marie Sivuarapi
- Alicie Tookalak
- Aikimie Novalinga
- Nellie Nunga
- cast
- Paulosie Aupoluk
- Mina Mathews
- Peter Mathews
- Josua Novalinga
- Rita Novalinga
- Adamie Sivuarapi