Inuk Silis Høegh (born 1972 in

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) is a Greenlandic artist and filmmaker. The son of artist

Aka Høegh Aka Høegh (born 16 December 1947) is a Greenlandic painter, graphic artist, and sculptor. Career Høegh has worked in a variety of media, including painting, drawing, printmaking ( lithographs), and sculpting. In her art, Høegh focuses ...

and photographer and film artist Ivars Silis, he grew up in an artistic environment, and his sister is Bolatta Silis Høegh, also an artist.

Background and education

Høegh received the Niels Wessel Bagges Grant in 2005, completing a

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(MFA) from The Royal Danish Academy of Fine Arts (2010) and a Master of Arts in Film and TV Production from the

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(1997).

Career

Filmmaking

Høegh's 2002 documentary "Eskimo Weekend" followed a Greenlandic rock band over a weekend, and has been credited with challenging stereotypes about

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. In 2014 Høegh released the documentary Sumé: Sound of a Revolution about the groundbreaking Greenlandic rock band Sumé. The movie was the first ever Greenlandic selection shown at the Berlinale festival, and was very well received.

Visual art

In 2013 Høegh's art installation ''Iluliaq'', a monumental sculpture of an iceberg, was installed in the Great Hall of the

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, in

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, as part of the exhibition ''Sakahàn: International Indigenous Art''. The work provided a commentary on climate change, as it appeared gradually to "melt" as the windows of the Great Hall were replaced over the duration of the installation. His artwork has been featured in exhibitions in countries including Greenland, Denmark, France, Iceland, Finland, Latvia and Germany, and his film work has been shown internationally.

Filmography

* ''Godnat - Sinilluarit'' (short film, 1999) * ''På Fremmed Is'' (documentary, 2000) * ''Eskimo Weekend'' (short film, 2001) * ''Red Lights and Time for Time'' (music videos, 2003–2004) * ''Sooq Akersuuttugut / Why We Fight'' (art video, 2004) * ''Tarrarsornerit / Spejlinger'' (documentary, 2007) * ''Sumé: The Sound of a Revolution'' (documentary, 2014) * ''The Green Land''

References

External links

* https://www.thesoundofarevolution.com/ * https://www.dfi.dk/viden-om-film/filmdatabasen/person/inuk-silis-hoegh 1972 births Living people 20th-century Greenlandic people 20th-century Inuit people 21st-century Greenlandic people 21st-century Inuit people Greenlandic artists Greenlandic Inuit people Inuit artists Inuit filmmakers People from Qaqortoq {{Greenland-bio-stub