People Have Always Told Stories

Some stories end up in archives, others live on through oral tradition. Some become official truths, others are forgotten or rendered invisible. Stories have always existed, but they are shaped, forgotten, or reclaimed depending on power, place, and time. Lars’ and Inuk’s work represent two narratives that in different ways illuminate Greenland’s history and memory and its colonial structures but now and then. A Danish project using the archival backs of photographs, where the notes and names on the backs reveal power structures: the Danes of the expedition are listed with first and last names, titles, and with a clear subjectivity, while the Inuit are clearly objectified and described as types.And Inuks projektet is a Greenlandic based on oral memories and landscapes that gives voice to the personal and collective heritage, there deals whet issues off fints off Uranium the nire by mounts. Where there is interests ind mining to continue fuling the westen over consumerism whet no regards for natur, animals and humans. But there is also an encounter between the photographic and the filmic media in book form.

Lars’ project


The backs of the photographs represent colonial archival material and institutional memory. They reveal how the history of Greenland has been written in margins, in notes, and in colonial archives—where the Inuit become invisible.The back off the pictures are from the The Fifth Thule Expedition (1921–1924) and Peter freuchen privet arkice now and the kungelige bibliotek I København. Was one of the most important Danish polar expeditions, with the purpose of searching the origins of the Inuit. The expedition accommodated 15 people: five Danes and seven native Greenlanders.

Inuk’s project


Reflects the oral tradition and lived memory. It ties the history of the individual and the people to nature and politics—the ongoing relationship between humans and place.It is a 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 linked to the search for identity of the fledgling nation in a post-colonial world.