Bastien Labat & Antoine Frère This series is a documentary study about urban life in Greenland. Few months ago, a huge curiosity and our natural sense for adventure make us flew to Nuuk, the capital of Greenland, a city lost in the ice that you can reach only by boat or by the air. In this far away country, we discovered a very modern little town with, despite its isolation, all the comfort and technological improvement of an occidental capital. We stayed there 3 months, we met plenty of people and we integrated the core of the capital’s social life. During this fieldwork, our attention were particularly focused on the youth. In Greenland, the 20-30 generation is stuck between two world: the modern and globalized world in one hand and theirs father’s world, the old traditional one, in the other hand. Urbanization is really new in Greenland and the 20-30 generation is the first one to be born in town. This generation never learned how to hunt or fish, they don’t uses kayak to travel or Tupilak and spirituality to protect their house anymore. Instead of it they’re connected on Facebook, they takes plane, listens to Brit pop and are dressed like their American idol. If in appearance the progress did well in Greenland, a strange feeling appears when you go deeper: Greenland is the country with the highest suicide’s rate. A lot of people are unemployed, inactive and dependent of Denmark’s social help. 67% of the kids quit school before high-school. And violence and aggressions have a really high rate, particularly in a country with 0.03 inhabitants per km². As a twisted generation, the 20-30 have the first rank on those bad figures and they are widely touched by the social problem. But a whole lead group, part of this generation, recently raised to improve this situation. Those are the people which we had met and it is by their eyes that we want to see Greenland. From the material we had collected, we‘ve made a web-documentary, on the bases of four portraits of people living an urban life in this wild country which is Greenland. Our idea is to extend this concept and make a series showing each principal cities in Greenland thanks to 4 inhabitants for each city. During a brief trip around the main cities of Greenland, we had notice how much each city have its particular identity and how much they are different from each-others. That what we want to show: the diversity and the human wealth of this little country. Our first episode about Nuuk has a wide angle. But the idea for the series is to focus on different topics in each city selected depending their pertinence: politics for Nuuk, education for Paamiut, tourism for Ilulissat, history for Qaanaq, environmental matter for Qaqortoq and economy for Angmagssalik. The tension between tradition and modernity is the core of our work and forms the link between all the episodes.

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