Silent Messengers

The title of this extraordinary documentary describes the Inuksuit, the iconic stone figures that mark the landscape of the north. Bold and upright, these enduring objects evoke a variety of images, from doorways and thresholds to the human form itself. As enigmatic as the stone slabs of Stonehenge, the Inuksuit are powerful and sacred signs of the lasting presence of their creators, the Inuit, the very first people to inhabit the Arctic.

With acclaimed ethnogeographer and photographer Norman Hallendy and well known sculptor-actor Natar Ungalaq (“Atanarjuat: The Fast Runner”) as their guides, the filmmakers traverse the open and sometimes forbidding terrain around Cape Dorset, in search of these enigmatic objects and their meanings.

The film will be screened in collaboration with the Embassy of Canada.

Canada 2005