I AM NAULAQ
Naulaq (the origin of the name comes from the inuktitut name for the harpoon spearhead) the is an Inuk woman in her 60s who lives in the Arctic and fishes as a way to survive, but also to celebrate the beginning of Spring, the sun, into the landscape she belongs to.
We are currently in preproduction for I AM NAULAQ and location research
Our chosen landscape is the Canadian Arctic as Inuit history is linked to it.
Avatâra has travelled several times to Canada during 2018 to learn about Inuit culture, its people and its artists in order to inform a staged performance version of I AM NAULAQ, to be premiered in May 2018 at the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau Dresden. It will be a duet between Naulaq Ledrew and Inuk woman in her 60s and Avatâra herself Spanish, Mediterranean in her 30s. What can an encounter of a Mediterranean woman and an Arctic one bring us? How can we give voice to these two characters that belong to such a different cultures and landscapes? What do they have in common?
In April 2018 we visited Iqaluit in Nunavut (Canadian Arctic) to research and find the right locations for the film. British Council and the Spanish Embassy in Ottawa supported us on this research. We will shoot in Iqaluit in 2020.
If you are interested in supporting the project, please contact us at info @ threewomenthreefilms.com. We will be happy to tell you more about the development of the film. Images of our time in Iqaluit with Naulaq Ledrew here below
Avatâra has travelled several times to Canada during 2018 to learn about Inuit culture, its people and its artists in order to inform a staged performance version of I AM NAULAQ, to be premiered in May 2018 at the European Centre for the Arts Hellerau Dresden. It will be a duet between Naulaq Ledrew and Inuk woman in her 60s and Avatâra herself Spanish, Mediterranean in her 30s. What can an encounter of a Mediterranean woman and an Arctic one bring us? How can we give voice to these two characters that belong to such a different cultures and landscapes? What do they have in common?
In April 2018 we visited Iqaluit in Nunavut (Canadian Arctic) to research and find the right locations for the film. British Council and the Spanish Embassy in Ottawa supported us on this research. We will shoot in Iqaluit in 2020.
If you are interested in supporting the project, please contact us at info @ threewomenthreefilms.com. We will be happy to tell you more about the development of the film. Images of our time in Iqaluit with Naulaq Ledrew here below
The research behind I AM NAULAQ
We have developed a documentation process about the fishing tradition of Inuits. Since in the Inuit culture it was the children and women who mostly used to go fishing, it is our intention to take the fishing Inuit traditions as a starting point to give visibility to the the Inuit culture.
Inuit Traditional Fishing Techniques
