Cosmopolitan Inuit: New Perspectives on Greenlandic Film

• Main Author: Thisted, Kirsten
• Format: Book Part
• Language: English
• Published: Edinburgh University Press 2015
• Subjects: Greenland; Nuuk; greenlandic; inuit
• Online Access: http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/edinburgh/9780748694174.003.0007

This chapter considers contemporary acts of appropriation undertaken by Greenlandic filmmakers, as a local feature film industry has only recently emerged in the capital of Nuuk. While there is evidence of postcolonial protest against Denmark’s long dominance over Greenland, Thisted argues that in twenty-first century fiction feature films made in and about Nuuk, Greenland is situated as part of a global network of multicultural practices and representational techniques. Thisted examines Otto Rosing’s and Torben Bech’s Sundance-screened Nuummioq (2009), which is considered the first feature film produced in Greenland, and Angajo Lennert Sandgreen’s Hinnarik Sinnattunilu (2009). The chapter discusses these films as indications of an emerging cinematic autonomy, while Nuummioq ’s international release was hampered by the fact that it had not been financed by the Danish Film Institute.