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Living Waters (ᐃᒪᕐᒥᐅᑕᐃᑦ ᐆᒪᔪᑦ)
Synopsis
Living Waters is a trip back to an inuit way of life rooted in the Arctic. David Nanook, an Elder from the community of Taloyoak, Nunavut, passes on knowledge about how to repair and use a traditional stone fish weir, as his Elders taught him. The youth joining David reconnect with the ancestral protocols of this fishing ceremony and their inuktitut language, reawakening their deep relationship with the land and its waters.
Cast & Crew
- Original idea : Taloyoak Umaruliririgut Association
- Direction, Sound and Image by : felippe
- Co-Directing : Vincent L'Hérault
- Production : Vincent L'Hérault, François Dubé
- Editing : Léa Humbert
- Guide and translator : Joe Tulurialik
- Online Editing and Color : Andréanne Cyr
- Sound Design and Mix : Martin Hudon, Studio Expression
- Original Score : David Nanook et Bessie Uquqtuq
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Biography
Felippe is a filmmaker originally from Colombia, who has been working in Quebec City since 2012. He is a graduate of Concordia University (Canada) and the Septima Ars (Spain). As a director, his work revolves around questions of identity, notions of ritual, as well as the sacred. His artistic approach is defined by a documentary approach with an intimate, social, and sometimes ethnographic character.
Filmography
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2022Sculpter la vibration / 8 min.
Festivals
[2025] Festival de Cinéma de la Ville de Québec, Canada
[2025] Festival International du Cinéma Francophone en Acadie (FICFA), Canada
[2026] Big Sky Documentary Film Festival, USA
[2026] Vues sur mer, Canada
[2026] ACT Human Rights Film Festival, USA
[2026] Nunavut International Film Festival, Canada
[2026] RVQC, Canada
[2026] FIFEQ, Canada
[2026] Présence Autochtones International Festival, Canada
[2026] RIFFA, Canada
[2026] Asinabka Film & Media Arts Festival, Canada
[2026] Charlotte Film Festival, USA
Mot du réalisateur
For the past five years my personal quest has been to trace and document alternative ways of learning that run alongside, beneath and beyond Western structures and institutions. I’ve come to understand that most of these ways are not necessarily “new” or “innovative”, but rather Ancestral, like in the case of David Nanook and the stone fish weir. David didn’t learn inuktitut in a public school, no professor taught him how to build or mend a fish weir, knowing how to harvest the fish wasn’t handed down in a book, it wasn’t the RCMP that showed him how to slice and eat raw arctic char with care… He lived on the land, he listened, he watched, he learnt from his Elders. The camera becomes my way of witnessing, of holding an audiovisual space for stories passed on from mouth to ear, from hand to hand, from stone to stone. With this film I attempt to bear testimony that these ways are not forgotten, but rather living ones, rooted in territory, breathing with Ancestral knowledge.
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