CARGC-CDCS Symposium Film Screening: In the Shadow of Tugtupite

"In the Shadow of Tugtupite" is a short documentary film directed by Inuk Jørgensen.

In the Shadow of Tugtupite will be screened during April 21-25 as a part of the month-long CARGC-CDCS Symposium, "Building Solidarity in the Anthropocene: Approaches to Infrastructure, Environment, and Global Communication." Each week of April, we will provide access to a different documentary film which explores relationships among technology, infrastructure, environment. The Symposium will conclude with a filmmaker discussion on Friday, April 29. Please see below for the detailed Symposium description.

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About the Film

In the Shadow of Tugtupite (2020) is cinematic portrait of despair and anxiety towards an unknown future for the Inuit of the world's largest island. The film questions the rationale behind past and future mining prospects in Greenland and how they are connected to a search for identity for the fledgling nation. This film, in many ways, laid the foundation for the events that eventually led to a call for an early election in Greenland during the spring of 2021.

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About the Filmmaker

Inuk Jørgensen is a filmmaker and activist from Greenland. Inuk holds a master's degree in film studies, is a voting member of the European Film Academy, sits on the board of Film.GL, and has a long history of producing shorts and advertising content of different sorts. His short films have been shown at more than 100 film festivals worldwide and on every continent, winning awards in as diverse countries as, the U.S., Finland, India, Greenland, and Ukraine.

Have questions for the filmmaker?

Please submit your questions/comments about any of our featured films in advance. We will share them with filmmakers and respond during Q&A at the closing discussion with filmmakers on Friday, April 29.

This film screening is co-sponsored by the Center of Experimental Ethnography (CEE) and the Collective for Advancing Multimodal Research Arts (CAMRA) at the University of Pennsylvania.

About the Series

"Building Solidarity in the Anthropocene: Approaches to Infrastructure, Environment, and Global Communication"

Oceans rise. Trees burn. Shales fracture. Mines pollute. Viruses spread. Cities under lockdown. Infrastructures attack. Ecologies go feral…. We are in an era where infrastructures and environments are ever closely intersected on a global scale. How to make sense of the different but intersecting logics, networks, and poetics of infrastructures and environments? What critical roles do media and mediation play in shaping the anthropocene, both in the Global South and North? At the 2022 CARGC-CDCS Spring Symposium, we invite speakers to discuss how they address these important questions in their respective works.  
 
The 2022 Symposium will bring together leading scholars, artists, activists, journalists, and other experts to collaboratively envision our shared futures. Speakers will share their research and multi-modal works from wide-ranging and multidisciplinary perspectives. The main topics of discussion include resource extraction, decolonial practices, politics of environment, urban infrastructure, environmental racism, trans-oceanic supply chains, and communication infrastructures amidst global health emergencies. We envision each roundtable as a generative space for open dialogues and critical reflections. Our month-long Symposium will also feature filmmakers and their works which explore the relationships among technology, infrastructure, environment, and affected communities. Their films will be made available for online screening (access with codes) during the Symposium month. Our Symposium month will conclude with a cross-panel discussion about this year’s overarching themes and our featured films.