Set against the wide expanse of the arctic, Zacharias Kunuk’s Inuit reclamation of the revenge Western follows a man’s pursuit of his kidnapped family. Where John Ford’s central character in his troubling classic The Searchers pursued racial vengeance, Maliglutit’s central character, Kuanana, uses violence to serve restoration—correcting and restoring the order of a world and a society that can only function with cooperation. Punctuated by the cyclical breathing of Tanya Tagaq’s throat singing, the film counters the colonial archetypes of the West, foregrounding the landscape as a living presence rather than a frontier obstacle. 2016, Canada, DCP, in Inuktitut with English subtitles, 94 min.
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Bio
Zacharias Kunuk OC, O.Nu. (Inuk) is a filmmaker, sculptor, and visual artist who lives in Iglulik, Nunavut. Kunuk’s work articulates the right to make films in an Inuit voice and from Inuit perspective. After joining the Inuit Broadcasting Corporation (IBC) in 1982, Kunuk co-founded Igloolik Isuma Productions in 1988. His film Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner received 19 awards worldwide, including Best Canadian Feature Film at the Toronto International Film Festival. He received an Indspire award in 2001, and in 2002 was inducted as an Officer into the Order of Canada for promoting Inuit film production. In 2012 he received the Queen Elizabeth II Diamond Jubilee Award, and in 2017 he received the Toronto Film Critics Association’s Technicolor Clyde Gilmour Award. In 2019 he was honored with the Order of Nunavut, Nunavut’s most prestigious award. He is also the winner of the National Arts Award and the National Aboriginal Achievement Award.
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