{"id":20757,"date":"2017-07-01T09:00:00","date_gmt":"2017-07-01T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/dev.cinemapolitica.org\/?p=20757"},"modified":"2021-06-02T13:47:39","modified_gmt":"2021-06-02T17:47:39","slug":"unsettling-150","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.cinemapolitica.org\/fr\/unsettling-150\/","title":{"rendered":"Unsettling 150"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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UNSETTLING 150: ACTES DE R\u00c9SISTANCE<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t
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Two Canadian independent media arts organizations\u2014Vtape and Cinema Politica\u2014 have joined together to present the following film and video program for free streaming during this year\u2019s \u201cCanada Day\u201d weekend. On the occasion of the government of Canada\u2019s sesquicentennial celebrations, we are offering the following exceptional titles as works that challenge and unsettle dominant narratives that have storied Canada.<\/p>

They will be available for free online viewing across the country on the July 1st \u201cCanada Day\u201d weekend for 72 hours: from Friday June 30 to Sunday July 2.<\/p>

These are incisive stories of resistance told by some of the most committed and engaged media artists in the country. They represent only the tip of a massive iceberg of stories, both told and untold, but together cover crucial ground and provoke critical thought.<\/p>

We acknowledge that these films and videos will screen in many traditional territories across this country, and that these territories, often unceded or subject to broken treaties, are sacred lands to many Indigenous nations. We are grateful to the artists and their subjects for allowing us to share these stories with you. We are further grateful to the National Film Board of Canada, who kindly provided five of the films.<\/p>

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REPERCUSSIONS<\/h5>
Terril Calder | 2013 | 3’35 (TAPECODE 972.03)<\/strong><\/h5>

Vibrations still resonate from the lands past. If you paid full attention you can hear the history underfoot. Toronto has always been a gathering place for the interchange of knowledge, experience and goods. It has a rich history of those traditions and remains to be rich because of those traditions. Repercussions is a portal that examines the link aboriginal people have to the lands history and resonates into a future that is strengthen by this acknowledgement. Vtape is the distributor of REPURCUSSIONS – follow\u00a0this link<\/a>\u00a0to book the film for educational or community screenings today.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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SOUND OF STRINGS<\/h5>
Rah | 2012 | 4’41 (TAPECODE 1083.01)<\/strong><\/h5>

On the right screen, I am threading my face which is a form of epilation and is common practice in Middle Eastern countries. This method of threading is used in Iranian culture and it has been a part of my upbringing since a young age. It is also a female bonding ritual, one in which I share with the women in my life and it is typically performed in a private space. This space is commonly reserved for story sharing and dialogue. I attempt to bring the viewer into intimate contact with acts that are usually performed in private; I attempt to create feelings of closeness and familiarity. My performance becomes an offer of intimacy and access.\u00a0Vtape is the distributor of SOUND OF STRINGS – follow\u00a0this link<\/a>\u00a0to book the film for educational or community screenings today.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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CONTINUOUS JOURNEY<\/h5>
Ali Kazimi | Canada | 2004 | 87′ (TAPECODE\u00a0692.02)<\/strong><\/h5>

Continuous Journey is an inquiry into the largely ignored history of Canada’s exclusion of the South Asians by a little known immigration policy called the Continuous Journey Regulation of 1908. Unlike the Chinese and the Japanese, people from British India were excluded by a regulation that appeared fair, but in reality, was an effective way of keeping people from India out of Canada until 1948. As a direct result, only a half-mile from Canadian shores, the Komagata Maru was surrounded by immigration boats and the passengers were held incommunicado virtual prisoners on the ship. Thus began a dramatic stand-off which would escalate over the course of two months, becoming one of the most infamous incidents in Canadian history.\u00a0Vtape is the distributor of CONTINUOUS JOURNEY – follow\u00a0this link<\/a>\u00a0to book the film for educational or community screenings today.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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THE PASS SYSTEM<\/h5>
Alex Williams | 2015 | 51′ (TAPECODE\u00a02000.00)<\/strong><\/h5>

The Pass System illuminates Canada\u2019s hidden history of racial segregation. For over 60 years, the Canadian government often denied Indigenous peoples the basic freedom to leave their reserves without a pass. Cree, Saulteaux, Dene, Ojibwe and Blackfoot elders of the prairie land where this took place tell their stories of living under and resisting the system, and link their experiences to today. Acclaimed Cree actor and activist Tantoo Cardinal narrates this investigative look into a little-known Canada, with music by Cris Derksen.\u00a0Vtape is the distributor of THE PASS SYSTEM – follow\u00a0this link\u00a0<\/a>to book the film for educational or community screenings today.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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INAATE\/SE\/ [IT SHINES A CERTAIN WAY. TO A CERTAIN PLACE\/IT FLIES. FALLS.\/]<\/h5>
Zack Khalil and Adam Shingwak Khalil | 2016 | 70′ | English and Anishinaabemowin (TAPECODE 2051.00)<\/strong><\/h5>

Adam and Zack Khalil\u2019s debut film re-imagines the Seven Fires Prophecy, an Anishinaabe story which both predates and predicts the arrival of Europeans in North America. The story not only foretells their arrival, but urges the Anishinaabe people to begin a great migration westward to avoid them. It goes on to narrativize the devastating consequences of colonization, while also providing direction for the recovery of the Anishinaabe way of life in the future. It functions as both historical record and prophecy, and it would be added to and amended as time unfolded.\u00a0Vtape is the distributor of INAATE\/SE\/ – follow\u00a0this link\u00a0<\/a>to book the film for educational or community screenings today.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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LES CONTAGIONS BARBARES (THE BARBARIAN CONTAGIONS)<\/h5>
Marie Dauvern\u00e9 | 2015 | 5′ | French \/ English (TAPECODE 1086.02)<\/strong><\/h5>

Why can’t boys wear skirts and girls grow a mustache? Why have sex and religion come to replace the plague as our number one collective fear? Set in a folkloristic alpine background, Les contagions barbares (Barbarian Contagions) is a whirlwind of questions that a child might ask. Through a melting pot of images and video extracts, folk music, medieval archives and handmade drawings, the childlike voiceover narrator embarks us on a journey where gender, sexuality and systemic violence collide with history, tradition, family taboos and even a Bobsleigh race.\u00a0Vtape is the distributor of LES CONTAGIONS BARBARES – follow\u00a0this link\u00a0<\/a>to book the film for educational or community screenings today.<\/em><\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t\t\t

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