Inuit All Along
Call him Norman of the North — or the Wandering Jew.
That\’s the best way to explain how cinematographer Norman Cohn of Washington Heights, N.Y., moved to the Canadian Arctic and shot the first Inuit-language feature film. He was the only non-Inuit to work on Zacharius Kunuk\’s \”The Fast Runner (Atanarjuat),\” based on an ancient epic about a community torn apart by jealousy. The haunting film won a top 2001 Cannes prize and was deemed a \”masterpiece\” by The New York Times.