The Journals of Knud Rasmussen
- Sunday, March 23 10:00 am
- Wednesday, March 26 6:30 pm
- Friday, March 28 8:30 pm
- Saturday, March 29 9:30 am
Savoy Theater
Friday, March 28 at 8:30 pm SOLD OUT
The new film by the directors of ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER is set in and around Igloolik in the 1920s, as the last great Inuit shaman and his headstrong daughter struggle to survive the sweep of civilization that brought Christianity and commerce to the arctic and irrevocably changed Inuit life. Witnesses to their story are Danish ethnographer and explorer Knud Rasmussen and his two traveling companions. Time Out: “After the timeless fable of ATANARJUAT: THE FAST RUNNER, writers and directors Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn return with a more reflective offering. What emerges from this careful chronicle is a pantheistic worldview integrated into the Inuit’s harmony with the inhospitable landscape, and its subsequent destruction when the adoption of Christianity removed the central influence of the community shaman. It’s a cumulatively powerful story of loss, played out amid extraordinary images of the tundra.” Sponsored by Onion River Sports. Community Partner: University of the Arctic, Center for Northern Studies at Sterling College. Post-film event: Norman Cohn will discuss the film after the Friday, March 28, and Saturday, March 29, shows. Rated R, 112 minutes, in Inuktitut and Danish with subtitles. Film website
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