IMAGeNation 2000
Film and Video Festival Schedule
Vancouver
Aboriginal Friendship Centre – Simon Baker Room, 1607 East Hastings Street
With
Howard Adams, Loretta Todd, Robert Free
Topic:
Aboriginal People and the Media: From
Media Literacy to Media Militancy?
Vine
Deloria Jr. on the media -
“It’s
the same situation in litigation, political status, water rights, hunting and
fishing, and jurisdiction issues across both countries, the United States and
Canada. We need a generation that
understands both the issues and how to present them to the public before we are
overwhelmed by the misinformation distributed by our opponents.
We need storytellers. (Aboriginal
Voices, July/August 1998 Vol.5 No.4)
Aboriginal
people are usually on the wrong end of the equation when it comes to media
exposure. It is common to see
images of native people in colorful costumes either bedecked in feathers or
button blankets or bedecked in camouflage.
Exotic or dangerous, there is very little in the mass media that truly
represents native people in a fair and accurate way.
Since Oka blew up on television in everyone’s living rooms in the
summer of 1990 there has been an onslaught of negative media images that
increase the public perception of native people as whining troublemakers or the
other extreme, addicted on Skid Row. A
case in point is the recent coverage of the situation in Burnt Church, New
Brunswick where the influence of the mainstream media is pervasive in
manufacturing (mostly negative) public opinion.
This panel will address issues of representation and the need for a
watchdog organization or media think tank to counteract what is seen as a very
real threat to our political and economic survival.
SATURDAY,
NOVEMBER 4TH, 2000
2000
VISUAL FEAST
1-6
PM VanEast Cinema
Creation – Animated short Director: Carol Geddes 5mins 2000 A limited-animation film about the creation mythology of the Tlingit people of the interior Yukon. With artwork based on the impressionist watercolours of Yukon artist Lillian Loponen and original music and soundscape by Charles Morrow, Creation is an aboriginal transcendental poem interpreted through music, images and words.
The Last Gold Wave – Video Poem Director/Writer. Mark J. McLeod. Producer and Videographer. Arlene Bowman06:34 mins The poem is about a man who searches for inner peace as he meditates at the beach.
In
Response to the Dumbest Question of the Twentieth Century
–
Experimental short
Fayant, Marcel, 1999 , 3:25 mins
An answer given to the question, Is the glass half full or half
empty?
Indians and Who? Vision TV Documentary for Skylight Program Director: Dorothy Christian 7:43 mins 2000 A thoughtful look at a family at play, discussing among other things, identity, family teachings, colonialism and?
I Dollard’ It - Video Poem Experimental Director: Darryl S. Bird 2000 The video is a statement of how society prostitutes itself by glorifying violence, alcohol, sex and the almighty dollar! Mac, a TV addict, gets transported into cathode mayhem and then escapes to spiritual enlightenment and freedom from the mechanized madness!
Generational Angst – Experimental documentary Director: Sheryl Kootenhayoo 22mins 2000 This experimental documentary explores the generational effects of residential schools, with members of the filmmaker’s family, finding the causes of stereotypes and genocide of our people. It answers the question of how can one can look toward the work being created to understand and acknowledge that we are strong, for keeping our identities, our histories and our power.
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– Experimental
Short
Director: Steven Loft 3mins 2000
An examination of codification and demarcation inflicted on Native people, and a
reflection on the artist’s mixed native and Jewish heritage.
His Indian status card is made into a tattoo.
Rocks At Whiskey Trench – National Film Board Feature DocumentaryDirector: Alanis Obomsawin 105 mins 2000 A documentary that recounts the events leading to the vicious attack on Mohawk women, children and elders during the Oka Crisis in 1990. Delves into the history of the conflict and the impact on the native community.
Above the Law Part II A documentary on Gustafson Lake Director: Mervin Brown Associate Producer: Splitting the Sky 54 mins Details the tactics used by the RCMP during the stand-off at Gustafson Lake against the Sun Dancers and the T’speten Defenders in 1995.
Break
EVENING
FEATURES:
7-12 PM
Johnny
Greyeyes
– Feature Drama Director:
Jorge Manzano 90 mins 2000
The story of a First Nations family struggling for justice and dignity. Set in
the 1970s on a reservation on Manitoulin Island in Quebec, it focuses on the
lives of four sisters who must confront the poverty and harsh environment of
life in a stagnant and insular community in the Canadian backwoods
Ingin Among Us – Cynthia Lickers (Repeat) Independent Canadian video artists produce a Public Service Announcement around anti--racism education for broadcast on national networks. 3 versions: 2:00 / 1:00 / :30 sec "Ingin among us" uses a humorous cowboy and western movie to dispel stereotypical beliefs around the Native identity .
Super Chief - Award winning Feature Documentary Director: Nick Kurzon 75 mins 1999 A feature documentary that follows closely an election process for Chairman of the White Earth Ojibwe Reservation in Minnesota. The story shows the hard work of the campaign and follows the tensions building like an orchestrated plot to an unpredictable end. Engrossing as a primetime movie, who will win the election?
Tushka
–
(Repeat) feature drama from Oklahoma
Comedy
Cabaret: The National Aboriginal
Over Achievement Awards
Lux
Theatre, at the WESTERN FRONT, 303 East 8th Avenue
8
PM – LATE Everyone welcome