Norman Cohn

Work: "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen"

Norman Cohn is secretary-treasurer and co-founder of Igloolik Isuma's collective. Living since 1985 both in Igloolik and Montreal, Cohn developed with Zacharias Kunuk, elder Pauloosie Qulitalik and the late Paul Apak, Isuma's signature style of "re-lived" cultural drama, combining the authenticity of modern video with the ancient art of Inuit storytelling.

Cohn was producer and director of photography for "Atanarjuat The Fast Runner", "Nunavut (Our Land)" and the rest of Isuma's collective videography.

Before coming to Igloolik Cohn was a widely exhibited video artist. The solo exhibition, "Norman Cohn: Portraits", opened in 1983 at Toronto's Art Gallery of Ontario, National Gallery of Canada, Vancouver Art Gallery and other Canadian museums, and Cohn's 1987 experimental feature documentary "Quartet for Deafblind" was selected for Dokumenta 7.

Winner of a 1990 Guggenheim Fellowship and numerous Canada Council Awards, Cohn was co-winner with Kunuk of the 1994 Bell Canada Award for Outstanding Achievement in Video Art.