Nunavut filmmaker bridges time and space for outpost camp film – NunatsiaqOnline

August 16, 2016

“I was so lost, even though I was happy in Iqaluit, something was missing. So I decided to go back home”

Myna Ishulutak holds back tears when asked what her grandfather would think of her new film, Qipisa, a 35-minute documentary about the land camp on Cumberland Sound where Ishulutak grew up.

“He’d be so happy that I’m trying to continue our culture,” Ishulutak said Aug. 12 from a coffee shop in Iqaluit’s plateau neighbourhood.

Ishulutak said her extended family wintered at the camp, called Qipisa, until about 1984, when her grandfather’s poor health forced the family to move to nearby Pangnirtung.

A few months later, Ishulutak’s grandfather, a respected leader in his 80s, died.

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