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| 导演： | John Houston |
| 制片国家/地区： | 加拿大 |
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| 年代： | 2007 |
| 豆瓣评分： | 0 |
| IMDB： | 0 |
| 影伴评分： | 0 |
剧情简介
The film Kiviuq, the Inuit creation myth, begins with this plea from a young Inuit woman: “Many young Inuit have a hole in their spirit as I have. I feel hungry, thirsty, wanting to learn more of our elder's stories. Our stories have power to heal.” For filmmaker John Houston, who was raised among Inuit in the territory that is now Nunavut and speaks Inuktitut fluently, Kiviuq ... (展开全部)
The film Kiviuq, the Inuit creation myth, begins with this plea from a young Inuit woman: “Many young Inuit have a hole in their spirit as I have. I feel hungry, thirsty, wanting to learn more of our elder's stories. Our stories have power to heal.” For filmmaker John Houston, who was raised among Inuit in the territory that is now Nunavut and speaks Inuktitut fluently, Kiviuq was a timely “racing against the cultural clock” project, as he travelled across the Arctic seeking out elders who remembered the legend. The son of pioneer Inuit art advocates James and Alma, Houston says he wanted to promote and preserve the stories of Kiviuq, the great Inuit Shaman, for fear of losing them.
These stories take 7 hours to tell. In the film, Houston treats the storytelling as a performance, intertwined with Inuit drum-dancing, theatre and visual arts that honour the story itself. The film features elders, who know the myth, local actors, drummers and a troupe of Inuvialuit dancers from Cambridge Bay. His film, which was made with a relatively frugal budget of $900 000, features many scenes taped in front of a live audience and uses simple props and décor. Amazingly, this minimalism is quite effective as it heightens the storytelling abilities of the elders and forces viewers to fill in the gaps with their imagination — an integral part of the oral storytelling tradition of which Houston is very respectful.
The film Kiviuq, the Inuit creation myth, begins with this plea from a young Inuit woman: “Many young Inuit have a hole in their spirit as I have. I feel hungry, thirsty, wanting to learn more of our elder's stories. Our stories have power to heal.” For filmmaker John Houston, who was raised among Inuit in the territory that is now Nunavut and speaks Inuktitut fluently, Kiviuq ... (展开全部)
The film Kiviuq, the Inuit creation myth, begins with this plea from a young Inuit woman: “Many young Inuit have a hole in their spirit as I have. I feel hungry, thirsty, wanting to learn more of our elder's stories. Our stories have power to heal.” For filmmaker John Houston, who was raised among Inuit in the territory that is now Nunavut and speaks Inuktitut fluently, Kiviuq was a timely “racing against the cultural clock” project, as he travelled across the Arctic seeking out elders who remembered the legend. The son of pioneer Inuit art advocates James and Alma, Houston says he wanted to promote and preserve the stories of Kiviuq, the great Inuit Shaman, for fear of losing them.
These stories take 7 hours to tell. In the film, Houston treats the storytelling as a performance, intertwined with Inuit drum-dancing, theatre and visual arts that honour the story itself. The film features elders, who know the myth, local actors, drummers and a troupe of Inuvialuit dancers from Cambridge Bay. His film, which was made with a relatively frugal budget of $900 000, features many scenes taped in front of a live audience and uses simple props and décor. Amazingly, this minimalism is quite effective as it heightens the storytelling abilities of the elders and forces viewers to fill in the gaps with their imagination — an integral part of the oral storytelling tradition of which Houston is very respectful.
