Tuktuit: Caribou is a 15-minute experimental documentary by Inuk filmmaker Lindsay McIntyre, shot on 16mm in Nunavut. It follows the ties between Inuit, caribou, and lichen on land where the herds are losing ground.
Lindsay processed the film herself. Caribou hide from her home territory of Qamani'tuaq was rendered into gelatin for handmade emulsion, and lichen gathered from the land became the developer that brought the images up. She has made almost fifty films this way, nearly all on 16mm, treating the medium itself as her material.
It is, in part, a way for me to honour my anaanatsiaq and ataatatsiaq, and what it took to make it possible for me to be in the world.
Lindsay McIntyreWe came on ahead of Sundance to build the film's public face: the key art, the trailer, and the campaign that carried it through the festival. There was no plot to cut a trailer around and no famous face to put on a poster, and the film had to hold its own among dozens of other shorts at Sundance.