Extracting Inuit: The of the North Controversy and the White Possessive

• Main Author: Cornellier, Bruno
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2016
• Subjects: Québécois filmmaker; Dominic Gagnon; North 2015; southern cinephile jouissance; Aileen Moreton-Robinson; settler cultural institutions; Lockean common; colonial inequalities; Moreton; inuit
• Online Access: https://escholarship.org/uc/item/83c9f1wr

This article critically explores the heated controversy surrounding screenings of Québécois filmmaker Dominic Gagnon's found-footage documentary of the North 2015, into which he inserted “found” clips of northern Inuit life he had extracted from YouTube as aesthetic capital for southern cinephi...