Merit Award, International Wildlife Film Festival
"An utterly exceptional and valuable piece of work." — John Haslett Cuff, The Globe and Mail
For thousands of years, the Inuit lived a contented existence in the fragile, brutal Arctic. When the Cold War swept in during the 1950s, it blew them from the Stone Age into the Space Age almost overnight.
The United States bombarded the Arctic with military technology. Canada, fearing for its sovereignty, responded by building a welfare society around it.
Together, the two countries created a high-tech outpost where the Inuit found themselves trapped between the ancient and the post-modern. With their old economy destroyed, they turned to a new one: exporting traditional sculpture. The trade gave the world mystical icons of a "primitive" people — even as those same people were being launched headlong into the Global Village.