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Atanarjuat, The Fast Runner

June 3, 2016 7:00 pm

International House Philadelphia

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dir. Zacharias Kunuk (Inuit), Canada, 2001, video, 170 min., Inuktitut with English subtitles

Based on an old Inuit legend, the chief of the clan has two sons, Amaqjuaq, the Strong One and Atanarjuat, the Fast Runner.  Jealousy between them leads to a bloody conflict that ends in the death of the chief and Amaqujuaq, while Atanarjuat must flee naked over the barren ice sea.  Director Zacharias Kunuk’s award-winning film, the first ever in the Inuktitut-language, presents a violent and brutal environment punctuated by moments of kindness in stark and breathtakingly beautiful landscape.

Special thanks to the Penn Museum who invite you to a free 50th anniversary screening of Navajo Film Themselves. This experimental set of films made in 1966 in a small town in the Navajo Nation has provoked years of debate among scholars, filmmakers and Navajo people. Penn Museum’s archives has managed a restoration and digital repatriation project in the last 8 years, offering the films back to the community in which they were made. A sample of the restored films will be shown, as well as the premier of a film by Richard Chalfen, created in 1966, which gives an overview of the project and views of the town and people. The screening is on Saturday, June 11 at 5pm at the Penn Museum. More details at www.penn.museum

Presented in association with UCLA Film & Television Archive. This project is supported in part by an award from the National Endowment for the Arts. Series curators: Jan-Christopher Horak, Dawn Jackson (Saginaw Chippewa), Shannon Kelley, Paul Malcolm, and Valerie Red-Horse Mohl (Cherokee). Associate curator: Nina Rao.

Tickets:  http://ihousephilly.org/calendar/through-indian-eyes-7

 

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