A Tent on Mars
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Concordia University (Montreal)
Monday March 1, 2010
Screening begins 20h00
Venue: Room H-110, 1455 de Maisonneuve O, Concordia University
A TENT ON MARS will be preceded by the 1967 Challenge for Change classic documentary, YOU ARE ON INDIAN LAND. This is event is in conjunction with the launch of the new book from McGill-Queen's University Press, Challenge for Change: Activist Documentary at the National Film Board co-edited by Cinema Politica's Ezra Winton (with Thomas Waugh and Michael Brendan Baker). Guest speakers will introduce the evening.
A Tent on Mars
A visual poem that weaves together the story of land and people
Martin Bureau / Canada / 2008 / 58 min
Thirty years after the closing of the Schefferville’s mining colony, and after taking over the town abandoned by non natives, the Innus are facing a new challenge: the reopening of the iron mines. Territory, identity and legitimacy are at the heart of a dialogue between two people, Quebecers and First Nations, living the same combat. Two civilizations that proclaim to be colonized. Although the first one often times acts as the colonizer. Whose territory is it? Do the natives have the same right to self-determination as the Quebecers? UNE TENTE SUR MARS is a poetic gift to a complicated situation.
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Directors- Martin Bureau and Luc Renaud
Producer- Sonia Despars
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