For their follow-up to the art house favorite "Atanarjuat" (The Fast Runner), filmmaking team Zacharias Kunuk and Norman Cohn have returned to Inuit lore from a different angle, making a film that is at once more accessible and less transporting than its predecessor. Where "Atanarjuat" planted viewers in the middle of an Inuit legend, forcing them to piece the tale together from verite-style sequences, "The Journals of Knud Rasmussen" is mediated by the writings of a Westerner who traveled the Arctic in the 1920s. While the filmmakers forgo any sort of narration, the viewer's perspective is largely the same Rasmussen's while he interviews the members of a small Inuit band.

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