Village Life

2-channel video projection
23:10 min

6 screens with interviews with:
Atsiannguaq Olsen, student and musician;
Justine Olsen, Garment maker;
Jonas Kristinsen, hunter and champion dog sled racer;
Martin Olsen, Municipal worker, hunter;
Meko Jensen, school principal and teacher;
Birgitta Kammann Danielsen, a social worker and teacher who has moved to Greenland from Germany.
4-7 min each

Courtesy ALPS Swiss Alpine Museum, Bern

The village of Kullorsuaq lies far north of the Arctic Circle, 200 kilometres from the nearest hospital. Life revolves around fishing and hunting as well as the village with its shop, school, community and family work. During the ice-free period, the supply ship comes every two weeks. It brings groceries and consumer goods and takes the locally caught, frozen fish. Those who want to pursue higher education move away and usually never come back. Leave or stay? Live the tradition or give it up? These are questions that particularly young villagers ask themselves.