of the North

Described as “a collage of amateur web videos that together provide a hallucinatory vision of the Arctic,” Dominic Gagnon’s latest film Of the North tackles the idea of self-representation. It’s one of a dozen films in the Canadian Feature Competition. The film, complete with snippets of throat singing and images of the Inuit and the north, examines self-perceptions of the Inuit in the digital age. Gagnon previously found inspiration in the web in his 2013 doc_ Hoax_Canular_, which riotously mines the Internet archives for footage of webcam confessional as the alleged doomsday of the 2012 Mayan prophecy came and went like Y2K.