Melting Barricades and the Sound of a Revolution: Inuk Silis Hoegh in Nuuk

Send us Fan MailIn this special guest episode of The Dubcast with Dubside, Dubside sits down with acclaimed Greenlandic filmmaker and artist Inuk Silis Hoegh for a wide-ranging conversation recorded aboard a boat in Nuuk Harbor.They explore Inuk’s creative journey—from his early short films and fiction work to his powerful documentary Sumé: The Sound of a Revolution, which chronicles the legendary Greenlandic rock band whose music helped ignite cultural self-determination in the 1970s. The discussion also revisits Melting Barricades, Inuk’s provocative 2004 performance art project that imagined a Greenlandic army resisting cultural invasion—an idea that feels newly resonant today.Along the way, Inuk reflects on art, identity, colonial history, archival memory, and the challenges of filmmaking in the Arctic, including mosquitoes, frost, and fleeting windows of green. The episode closes with insights into his recent land-art film installation The Green Land and his ongoing documentary work.Melting BarricadesSumé The Sound of A Revolution