Committed Cinema: Alanis Obomsawin

November 3–6, 2016

The films of Committed Cinema guest Alanis Obomsawin reveal the effects of colonialist history and destructive government policy on indigenous Canadians and show the power of resistance in First Nations communities. 

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  • Trick or Treaty

  • Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

  • Restigouche

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  • Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance

    Alanis Obomsawin
    Canada, 1993
    Thursday, November 3 7 PM

    Alanis Obomsawin in conversation with Joanne Barker and Corinna Gould.
    The 1990 fight for First Nations members to protect their burial grounds from a golf course expansion is chronicled in this moving documentary on native rights, resistance, and courage.  

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  • Trick or Treaty

    Alanis Obomsawin
    Canada, 2014
    Friday, November 4 7 PM

    Alanis Obomsawin, Joanne Barker, and Hulleah J. Tsinhnahjinnie in conversation. 
    Obomsawin’s powerful documentary is about both tracing and making history, looking back at Canada’s notorious Treaty No. 9 (which led many First Nations communities to lose their sovereignty) and chronicling contemporary indigenous struggles.

     

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  • Resistance and Remembrance: Three Films by Alanis Obomsawin

    Sunday, November 6 6:30 PM

    Alanis Obomsawin, Joanne Barker, and Melissa Nelson in conversation.
    Three powerful works illuminate the lives of the indigenous community of Canada, including Obamsawin’s debut work, Christmas at Moose Factory (1971).

     

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