Kunuk Platou

from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Kunuk Platou (born March 20, 1964 in Kangaamiut ) is a Greenlandic film producer and illustrator .

Life

Kunuk Platou was born in Kangaamiut as the son of a pastor and grew up in many of the places in Greenland where his father worked. From 1986 to 1988 he attended the Nuuk Art School . He then studied for three years at the Danish Design School of the Royal Danish Academy of Art before attending Den Danske Filmskole from 1996 to 2000 .

At a young age he drew caricatures and newspaper comics. In 1987 he started working as an illustrator for the Atuagagdliutit . Shortly afterwards he published the two comic books Siarsuk (two editions). From 1989 to 1992 and from 1994 to 1996 he worked for the film production company Inuk Media . In 1998 he was the screenwriter of the short film Sinilluarit by Inuk Silis-Høegh . In 2002 he made the film Nanoq as a graduate of his studies. In 2002 he produced the cartoon Ballerina . In the same year he was responsible for the sound engineering of the documentary Inuk Woman City Blues . He also illustrated postage stamps for POST Greenland in 2002 and 2003 . From 2004 to 2005 he worked at the Sermermiut cultural center in Ilulissat . From 2005 to 2007 he was employed as a graphic designer at Kalaallit Nunaata Radioa . He has had his own advertising company since 2003. Kunuk Platou has illustrated several books.

Filmography

  • 1998: Sinilluarit (screenplay)
  • 2000: Nanoq (producer)
  • 2002: Ballerina (producer)

Illustrations

  • 1986: Mamarpa by Hans Anthon Lynge
  • 1987: Siarsuk 1 (own work)
  • 1988: Taallat niviugak aalakoortoq allallu by Mariane Petersen
  • 1989: Siarsuk 2 (own work)
  • 1989: Qungujugit by Svend Møller
  • 2001: Naqitanik misissueqqissaarneq by Else Kleist
  • 2004: Kiitup aanani ikiorpaa by Anna Lisa Kreutzmann
  • 2004: Saamu Kiitulu tammaarput by Anna Lisa Kreutzmann
  • 2004: Allaasakkat by Abia Abelsen

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c CV (.pdf; 8.6 MB) at hedensted.dk (Danish)
  2. ↑ a b Greenland Collector 2002/3 p. 4.
  3. ↑ Report in the Atuagagdliutit of November 4, 1987
  4. ↑ Kunuk Platou at worldcat.org
personal data
SURNAME Platou, Kunuk
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Greenlandic film producer and illustrator
DATE OF BIRTH March 20, 1964
PLACE OF BIRTH Kangaamiut