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.

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