When producer Mudi Kramer Berthelsen went to school in the 90s, she learned about little Ole, a Danish boy, biking in the woods. But there are no woods to bike in in Greenland.
For children to learn from stories based on their own experience in the future, they first need to know their own history, and Greenlandic history has until today been interpreted by foreigners.
Oqaluttuamik will be the first time Greenlandic history is told by Greenlanders. The series format is built around a Kaffillerneq where guests come and go, sharing their part of history and their expertise. Guests can for example be a historian, an artist, a climate researcher, geologist or a fisherman. Piece by piece, an indigenous collage of Greenlandic history is brought to life and a bigger picture unfolds.
Words matter. Images count. Together, they create a connection.
Oral storytelling is and has always been a necessary survival strategy in Greenland. Stories, fables, songs and myths were passed down, teaching coming generations about everything between life and death, providing perspective and self-understanding through entertainment.
This is what this series will do for a national and international audience - connecting past, present and future, connecting - us, humanity.
From the central Kaffillerneq setting, a timeline of Greenlandic history will unfold across eight episodes mixing narrative threads through dramatizations, animations, archive material, documentary expeditions and self-reflective clips.