NFB Collection
Three Thousand
201714 minFilm: Documentary, Experimental
Direction: Asinnajaq
Production: Kat BauluAnnette Clarke
Script: Asinnajaq
My father was born in a spring igloo—half snow, half skin. I was born in a hospital, with jaundice and two teeth.
Inuit artist Asinnajaq plunges us into a sublime imaginary universe—14 minutes of luminescent, archive-inspired cinema that recast the present, past and future of her people in a radiant new light.
Diving into the NFB’s vast archive, she parses the complicated cinematic representation of the Inuit, harvesting fleeting truths and fortuitous accidents from a range of sources—newsreels, propaganda, ethnographic docs, and work by Indigenous filmmakers. Embedding historic footage into original animation, she conjures up a vision of hope and beautiful possibility.
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Subject categories
- Indigenous Peoples in Canada (Inuit) > Culture
- Arts Education > Art
- Indigenous Studies > ArtsIdentity/Society
- Geography > The Arctic
- Indigenous Peoples: Canada > Inuit & Arctic Peoples (in Canada)
- Intangible Culture & Literature > Traditional Stories & Storytelling
Credits
- writer
- Asinnajaq
- director
- Asinnajaq
- animator
- Jonathan Ng
- Patrick Defasten
- field recording
- Asinnajaq
- editor
- Annie Jean
- original music
- Olivier Alary
- throat singing
- Tanya Tagaq
- Celina Kalluk
- singer
- Asinnajaq
- sound design
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- sound editing
- Catherine Van Der Donckt
- sound consultant
- Benoît Dame
- foley artist
- Karla Baumgardner
- illustrations
- Naluturuk Weetaluktuk
- Tanya Innaarulik
- researcher
- Asinnajaq
- consultant
- Alethea Arnaquq-Baril
- Tanya Tagaq
- Geronimo Inutiq
- Judith Gruber-Stitzer
- online editor
- Yannick Carrier
- head of coordination and project support
- Pierre Ferlatte
- head, Technical resources
- Steve Hallé
- project technical coordinator
- Jean-François Laprise
- digital editing technician
- Pierre Dupont
- Isabelle Painchaud
- Patrick Trahan
- technical director, animation
- Éloi Champagne
- technical animation coordinator
- Randall Finnerty
- re-recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- foley recording
- Geoffrey Mitchell
- voice coaching
- Alanis Obomsawin
- Jobie Weetaluktuk
- translation
- Jobie Weetaluktuk
- Mylène Augustin
- marketing manager
- Amanda Laukys
- publicist
- Pat Dillon
- senior production coordinator
- Camila Blos
- Isabelle Limoges
- production coordinator
- Christine Williams
- program administrator
- Leslie Anne Poyntz
- Camila Blos
- producer
- Kat Baulu
- executive producer
- Annette Clarke
- executive director
- Michelle van Beusekom
Awards
- Kent Monkman Award For Best Experimental WorkimagineNative Film + Media Arts Festival
- International Indigenous AwardWairoa Maori Film Festival
- Best Global Indigenous Short Film AwardSkábmagovat Film Festival- Reflections of Endless Night