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Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq

Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq

Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq is a director based in Igloolik. When she was a child, her parents moved the family to an outpost camp, where they lived off the land for 11 years as generations of Inuit had done before them. Returning to the government-manufactured town of Igloolik was a painful experience that Bonnie explores in Nowhere Land, winner of the Best Short Documentary award at the 2015 imagineNative Festival. Her other NFB credits include Family Making Sleds, made through Stories from Our Land, and The Cache, an interactive photo-essay made for the Legacies 150series.

  • Stories from Our Land 1.5: Family Making Sleds
    Stories from Our Land 1.5: Family Making Sleds
    Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq 2011 5 min
    This short film portrays a family working together to make sleds. While the father expertly threads rope through runners and slats, expertly tying knots to hold them together, his wife and child work on their own stylized sleds. The film pays homage to the craft, while also capturing the sheer joy of downhill sled racing.

    Stories from Our Land: 1.5 gave 6 Nunavut filmmakers the opportunity to each create a 5-minute short. Each film had to be made without the use of interviews or narration while telling a northern story from a northern perspective. The project was a collaboration between the NFB and the Nunavut Film Development Corporation.
  • Nowhere Land
    Nowhere Land
    Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq 2015 14 min
    This short documentary serves as a quiet elegy for a way of life, which exists now only in the memories of those who experienced it. Bonnie Ammaaq and her family remember it vividly. When Bonnie was a little girl, her parents packed up their essentials, bundled her and her younger brother onto a long, fur-lined sled and left the government-manufactured community of Igloolik to live off the land, as had generations of Inuit before them.
  • Entre-deux
    Entre-deux
    Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq 2015 14 min
    Lorsque Bonnie Ammaaq était petite, ses parents ont fait leurs bagages, l’ont emballée avec son frère sur un long traîneau couvert de fourrures, qu’on appelle qamutik, et ont quitté la communauté gouvernementale d’Igloolik pour vivre de la terre, comme tant de générations d’Inuit l’avaient fait avant eux. Pendant onze ans, leur maison n’était pas la petite cabane du « camp éloigné », mais tout le territoire vaste, sauvage et spectaculaire qui s’étendait au-delà du pas de la porte.

    Entre-deux est une élégie silencieuse dédiée à un mode de vie qui n’existe désormais que dans les souvenirs de Bonnie, de son frère et de ses parents, ainsi que dans ceux d’autres encore vivants qui en ont fait l’expérience. Pour eux, la grande toundra sauvage n’était pas juste un endroit où vivre, c’était « quelque part », alors que la communauté d’Igloolik – leur demeure depuis ce temps –, avec ses motoneiges assourdissantes, ses plats paysages enneigés et la cohue du quotidien, c’est proprement « nulle part ».
  • Chroniques de notre terre natale - Traîneaux faits maison
    Chroniques de notre terre natale - Traîneaux faits maison
    Rosie Bonnie Ammaaq 2011 5 min
    Ce court métrage documentaire rend hommage au savoir-faire qu’exige la fabrication traditionnelle des traîneaux et saisit dans la foulée le plaisir vivifiant de la glisse.

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