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Sunday, Nov 6, 2016
6:30 PM (87 mins)
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BAMPFA
Resistance and Remembrance: Three Films by Alanis Obomsawin
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In Conversation
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Professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco and author ofNative Acts: Law Recognition and Cultural Authenticity. She is Lenape (an enrolled member of the Delaware Tribe of Indians).
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Associate professor of American Indian studies at San Francisco State University
Incident at Restigouche investigates the police raids on the Restigouche Reserve in Quebec in 1981. The raids were the government’s violent response to the Mi’kmaq peoples’ refusal to acknowledge restrictions on their traditional fishing rights. Richard Cardinal: Cry from the Diary of a Métis Child is based on the heartbreaking journal of a Métis teenager who committed suicide after having spent his short life in foster homes, group homes, and shelters. Obomsawin’s first film, Christmas at Moose Factory, is composed entirely of children’s crayon drawings and narrated by the young artists. It is indicative of the skill and sensitivity she has become renowned for in all of her subsequent work.
Films in this Screening
Incident at Restigouche
Alanis Obomsawin, Canada, 1984
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Roger Rochat
- Savas Kalogeras
Print Info
- Color
- 16mm
- 45 mins
source
- National Film Board of Canada
Richard Cardinal: Cry from the Diary of a Métis Child
Alanis Obomsawin, Canada, 1986
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Roger Rochat
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 29 mins
source
- National Film Board of Canada
Christmas at Moose Factory
Alanis Obomsawin, Canada, 1971
FILM DETAILS
Cinematographer
- Ben Low
Print Info
- Color
- DCP
- 13 mins
source
- National Film Board of Canada