Polar Outreach Catalogue

"Take it from the Top" is a community-based video making research project in which students interviewed community members on their conceptions of the North and South and also made short personal films about their North. The films were shot predominantly in Inuvik but also along the Arctic coast in Tutoyaktuk and Paulatuk and down into the Mackenzie Delta in Aklavik and Tsiigehtchic in Canada?s Northwest Territories. This film series made by Northerners, for Northerners, is not limited by words in a textual vacuum, but comes directly from the source. Northern culture has a rich and deep tradition of storytelling and new media can be a tool to share it and give it a new life.