Paper short abstract:

<strong>Wed 14th Apr, 14:30</strong> Co-director: Anni Seitz A family and village portrait in East Greenland.

Paper long abstract:

The Iivit (Inuit) in East Greenland inhabit a small string of coastal land at the edge of the biggest island of the world. Long winters have always shaped daily life here, a life that has gone within a few generations from earth house to modernity, complete with helicopters, satellite TV and alcohol. This documentary shows East Greenland today, the village in summer and winter, family life between seal hunting and computer games. It lets us experience in clear and poetical scenes normality in an extraordinary world, quietly observing events, faces, gestures that combine to form a portrait that is at the same time strange and strangely familiar.

Wiley-Blackwell Student Film Prize at the 11th Royal Anthropological Institute Festival of Ethnographic Film, Leeds, 2009.