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Annie Pootoogook

Subjects: Anthropology, Art, Biographies, Canadian Art, Canadian Studies, History, Indigenous Peoples, Native Studies

Grade Level: SrH-Adult
Producer: Site Media
Closed Captioned: No

Running Time: 30 mins
Country of Origin: Canada
Study Guide: No

Copyright Date: 2006
Available in French: No

This half-hour documentary is an intimate portrait of Cape Dorset artist Annie Pootoogook. We come to know her as a woman, a third generation Inuit artist and as a contemporary artist, grounded in the present. Annie describes her process of drawing, shares personal experiences and reflects on her identity as a working artist. Visuals of the land, domestic interiors and a series of interviews capture Annie's perspective. First person narrative and video diary approaches are used throughout the documentary. We see Annie working at home and at the Print Shop. We follow Annie to Toronto where she attends her prestigious solo exhibition at The Power Plant Gallery. Focused on Annie and her work, the film parallels Annie's own creative process of making and doing. Images of her drawings anchor the film in her art. The transitions, challenges and risks of her life are reflected in her drawings. The shamans, myths and land-based adventures prevalent in the last generation's prints and drawings are less evident. Annie drawings depict today. Local and global collide in her images: a seal hunton TV; a video play station dominates a sparsely furnished room, walrus meat is eaten on the floor with a modern kitchen visible in the background. Through Annie, we see the evolving realties of arctic experience and the continuing cultural value of experience, skill, resilience, adaptability, within a community framework of interconnectedness and family. We also experience Annie's career at a threshold of change as she begins to emerge as a contemporary artist and gain broader audience awareness.

Awards: The film has been selected for screening at the 12th edition of Artecinema in Naples, Italy, October 18th to October 21st, 2007 --- Screened at: Reel Artist Film Festival, February 2007 --- International Festival of Films on Art (FIFA), February 2007

Links: http://www.sitemedia.ca

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