Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak
5.4

Eskimo Artist: Kenojuak

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Directed by: John Feeney

Overview

This documentary shows how an Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone, printed and sold. Kenojuak Ashevak became the first woman involved with the printmaking co-operative in Cape Dorset. This film was nominated for the 1963 Documentary Short Subject Oscar.

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  • CinemaSerf (Rated: 7)

    Though they are not so great for natural light, I've always thought just how much are suitable igloos are for living in than pitched-roofed wooden houses when the snow and the Arctic winds are at their liveliest. That's how we meet Kenojuak and her family. Sheltering from a storm and sharing the las...

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