The Living Stone

This film shows the inspiration, often related to belief in the supernatural, behind Inuit sculpture. The Inuit's approach to the work is to release the image the artist sees imprisoned in the rough stone. The film centres on an old legend about the carving of the image of a sea spirit to bring food to a hungry camp.

Beautiful Inuit prints by an artist who is also a wife and mother. This film shows how the Inuit artist's drawings are transferred to stone and then printed for sale in the south.

"I am but a little woman / Very willing to toil..." - Kivkarjuk's Song Inspired by an Inuit poem first assigned to paper in 1927, I Am But a Little Woman wordlessly evokes the beauty and power of nature, as well as the bond between mother and daughter. As her daughter looks on, an Inuit woman creates a wall hanging filled with images of the spectacular Arctic landscape and traditional Inuit objects and iconography. Soon the boundaries between art and reality begin to dissolve. I Am But a Little Woman features director Gyu Oh's hand-drawn animation set to a traditional tune, which she performs.