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CONVERSATIONS (excerpts)with Jean Malaurie (Geomorphologist and Writer)

Paris- Dieppe: 2012/2014

Jean Malaurie
French.
Paris, France

2013

HD 1080p
Reel Duration: 25’26” (In French)
French version: distribution  INA france 2015/ 2019

 

In this reel, Jean Malaurie  brings out the genesis and outline of his thinking (“Pensee Sauvage” “Wild Thinking”) as well as the profile of an Inuit Philosophy based on the sharing of resources among the collectivity and an immanent relation with Nature; all still very prevalent today.

Introduction and resistance.
Paris. January 2013.
About 
rell # 1 : 3′ 42″
English version: Golden Rabbit Films 2017

In French

with english subtitles. 3’42

INTRODUCTION to INUIT LANDS The Melting Point

Excerpt from Inuit Lands the Melting Point.
USA. Greenland. France.
Running Time: 16’39”

French version: distribution  INA france

2012/2015
HD 1920/ 1080p

 

 

Greenland—the name conjures images of majestic Arctic landscapes and Nordic legends shrouded in mystery. The Inuit of Thule, Greenland—the northernmost people in the world—are proud, heroic hunters whose material and spiritual lives are inextricably bound to nature.

with english subtitles. 3’42

The French anthropologist Jean Malaurie discovered these communities in 1951—the year the U.S. government began building a military base in the middle of Thule Eskimo territory. Today, mining, oil exploration, and global warming threaten the traditions and the very existence of this ancient hunter society.

This documentary explores the resilience and the vulnerability of the Inughuit communities of North Greenland, who face new challenges posed by social and climatic changes.


It is a tribute to the People of Thule and to
Jean Malaurie’s lifetime study of the Arctic people.

THE DISCOVERY OF THE THULE AIR BASE. 1951

Excerpt from Inuit Lands the Melting Point.
USA. Greenland. France.
French version: distribution  INA france

 

2012/2015

HD 1080p
Reel Duration: 23’33”

 

It was in 1951, as  Jean Malaurie was traveling in the Thule region (north Greenland. Inuit Territory) with his companion Saquaeunnaq  that he discovered —the US Air Base of Thule. 

 

with english subtitles. 3’42

For more on Jean Malaurie, see in film page, the documentary

INUIT LANDS The Melting point shot in 2012/2013 and completed in late 2015.
It is a tribute to Jean Malaurie life time work on the Arctic people.
https://patrickmorell.com/films/#inuitlands