Vancouver

Movies to decolonize your mind!

Decolonize your mind and join NOII for films screenings exploring the realities of the "Canadian" experience.

Saturday July 4 2009 (All day)

Reasons to attend an indoor film screening on a beautiful summer day:

a) Canada-day weekend is filled with parades about the false histories and
myths of Canadian peacekeeping and multiculturalism.
b) Wow, free movies!
c) I am interested in discussions about colonization, imperialism,
oppression and how to ignite revolution!
d) I heart acclaimed critical documentaries, shorts, and artistic films.
e) All of the above.

SCHEDULE:

==> 11:00 am

Home Feeling: Struggle for a Community (57 mins, Jennifer Hodge and Roger
McTair). The Jane-Finch "Corridor" is an area of six square blocks in
Toronto's North York. The film focuses intimately on the lives of several
of the residents, many of them Blacks or members of other visible
minorities, and their relationship with police, social service agencies,
and other major institutions that affect their lives.

==> 12:30 pm

Writing the Land (7 mins, Kevin Lee Burton): This 2007 film meticulously
combines film language with Hunkamenum words to recreate Musqueam elder
Larry Grant's experience of rediscovering his language and cultural
traditions.

Resist 2010 (15 mins, Burning Fist Media with no2010): A short, fast-paced
documentary focusing on the negative impacts of the 2010 Games and the
ongoing resistance by Indigenous & other social movements.

You are on Indian Land (36 mins, Mort Ransen): A film report of the 1969
protest demonstration by Mohawk Indians of the St. Regis Reserve/Akwesasne
on the international bridge to draw attention to the violations of the Jay
Treaty of 1794 by Immigration and Customs officers. The film shows the
blockade and confrontation with police.

~ BREAK 2:00 - 2:30 pm ~

==> 2:30 PM

Borderless Me (14 mins, Setareh Mohammadi): explores the complex issues of
gender, identity, immigration, identification, and borders.

Unmapping Desire (6 mins, Sheila James) an experimental video/poem
carrying the theme of separation, political borders and social boundaries
which prevent women from loving women.

Checkpoint (12 mins, Alex Mah): The film examines how the daily lives of
trans, gender-variant and two-spirited men of colour living in Southern BC
are affected by gender-incongruent identification, from borders to bars.

==> 3:30 PM

Minoru: Memory of Exile (18 mins, Michael Fukushima): Directed by Michael
Fukushima, son of Minoru Fukushima who was interned in the interior of BC
and finally deported to Japan, the film artfully combines classical
animation with archival material. The memories of the father are
interspersed with the voice of the son, weaving a tale of suffering and
survival.

No Time to Stop (29 mins, Helene Klodawsky): Kwai Fong Lai is from Hong
Kong, Alberta Onyejekwe from Ghana, and Angela Williams from Jamaica. At
home and at work, they speak candidly about the conditions that shape
their lives as working class immigrant women.

Brown Women Blonde Babies (30 mins, Marie Boti and Malcolm Guy): Thousands
of women leave their homes and families in the Philippines every year to
work abroad as domestic workers. Thousands have made their way to Canada,
forming part of the Third World in our living rooms.

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