IMAGeNation 2000
Film and Video Festival Schedule
AFTERNOON
PROGRAMS - VanEast Cinema
CHILDREN’S
PROGRAM – Curated by Cease Wyss 1-3 pm
Descriptions
to be announced
ABORIGINAL
FILM AND TELEVISION PROGRAM 2000 Capilano College
Jonesing
Producer:
Byron ChiefMoon, Editor: Loretta Kantsiak 5:45 Copyright 2000 cappa
A young Native man, a handful of pills, a smoke filled bar, and an avante garde
dance piece...What begins to look like a hallucination turns to reality of
a young man caught in a whirl wind of dealing with life and death.
No
Place to Go
Composer:
Tim Cruly 4:00mins SunShine Records
Lone Eagle Productions - Music video expresses the lyrics of a
"country" boy in a variety of places and situations within the
big city.
Aboriginal
Education Program-2000
Kaylela-Cedar
Canoe Producers: Maurice Nahanee and Karen Tessier 23:00mins
A documentary that shares the experience of a diverse group of youth carving a
canoe from a red cedar log. The traditional building of canoes "carries the
culture of First Nations forward". By working together, self-esteem,
respect, harmony, prosperity, and honor are reflected in the creation of this
canoe.
Touching
The Past- Residential School Healing Project 14:00mins
copyright 2000- Rez Productions
With guidance from a mentor, a team of youth learn about Residential School
trauma syndrome by writing,
producing, directing, and editing a creative video that educates others and
themselves. Each youth encounters memories of the past that are held within
various objects that surround them.
Eagle
Eye Film School
Smoke
Rising
Director. Dean Baker Producer: Vivian Kelly/Andrea Baker 10:30mins Red
Eagle Movie Productions
This short film is about what can happen when leaving your small town community
in hopes for something
better in the city. Upon leaving, the young man is guided by his grandfather to
keep his prayers with at ll times.
I
am a Chief
Producer:
Dean Febbo, Editor: Leigh George 2:55
A play on the recent beer commercial " I am Canadian" but done in the
context of a stereotypical chief.
Nothing
Personal
Leigh George 5:48mins Distorted Pictures
The thought of leaving town to avoid a debt ignites a friend to offer an
alternative plan that involves guns, backpacks, heavy metal, running, blood, a
roll in the grass, and an unlucky car owner.
Crumbs. Director. Steven Baker Jr.40mins A whodunit featuring aboriginal gangsters from North Vancouver.
Hidden
Medicine
Director : Robbie Romero13minsLight
Motive-Eagle Thunder Vision, Roland Joffee
"we were given a way to live in peace...our future cures are being
destroyed...I am connected to every
living soul on the planet...to heal ourselves we need to combine modern science
and ancient wisdom..." These
are spoken by a young girl while beautiful images of nature are expressed
to emphasize the power of her
words.
Aboriginal
Youth Multi-Media Program (IMAG):
She’s
Not Alone by
Sandra Cross
Empire
by
Geoffery Pranteau
First
things first by
James Diamond
Humans
by James Desjarlais
Atrocities
by Michelle Oleman
Poor
Little Indians
by Chrissie Oleman
EVENING PROGRAM : ***INDIAN GIRLS KICK ASS***
VanEast
Cinema 7-11 PM
Women
United
– Quetzotl with subtitles Mexico Director(s): Chiapas Media Project
16mins 2000 A women’s collective at work in the province of Chiapas,
Mexico.
Helpless Maiden Makes an I Statement – Experimental short 2000 Director: Thirza Cuthand 6minsBy using clips of evil queens/witches this video plays off the sadomasochistic lesboerotic subtexts commonly found in children's entertainment. A helpless maiden is tiring of her consensual s/m relationship with her lover, an evil queen. She wants to break up. An impassioned monologue in a dungeon with our heroine in wrist cuffs as she initiates what quickly becomes an emotionally messy ending in flames. This video was inspired by the artists own childhood kiddy porn, Disney movies which turned her on to no end and kicked off many a prepubescent masturbation session.
Johnny
Greyeyes
– Feature Drama Director:
Jorge Manzano 79 mins 2000
A feature drama of a woman who finds love, her sense of being, and who faces her
own history of violence and pain within the confines of the Kingston maximum
security prison.
Backroads
–
Feature drama
Director: Shirley Cheechoo
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.