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  • Tupilaq (2013)
  • Short | 6 min | Animation, Short, Biography
Tupilaq (2013)
Short | 6 min | Animation, Short, Biography
'Tupilaq' is a very personal short film revolving around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse, and contrast between mythological nature and western culture. Tupilaq gives a heartbreaking peek into a traditional Greenlandic background, ...See more'Tupilaq' is a very personal short film revolving around the themes of cultural alienation, abuse, and contrast between mythological nature and western culture. Tupilaq gives a heartbreaking peek into a traditional Greenlandic background, in contrast to the every life of western society. In the film, this contrast is depicted through the repetitive monotony and the human distance of modern society - with its square buildings and faceless people - opposed to the natural beauty of the Greenlandic landscape, pictured as a unattainable world of an idealized painting. As the film balances between superstition and rationality, the film uses the Tupilaq as a symbol. The Tupilaq is both a symbol of the spirit of a forefather and a curse, which you can cast upon an enemy See less
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Director
Jakob Maqe
Writer
Jakob Maqe
Producer
Rasmus Kastberg
Editors
Rikke Malene Nielsen | Per Risager
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Updated Jun 11, 2014
Release date
Nov 2014 (United States)
Awards
2 wins & 1 nomination

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