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Memory With(out) Home

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6 films in package
Tiny
'Nakwaxda'xw Elder Colleen Hemphill's memories of growing up on a float home near Alert Bay are wonderfully brought to life in this intricate and richly detailed stop-motion film.
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Madeleine
Blending reality with fiction and live action with felted animation, filmmaker Raquel Sancinetti captures the remarkable relationship she shares with the delightful, 107-year-old Madeleine.
Troika
A group of friends, all twenty-something immigrants from Eastern Europe, hang out, skateboard, smoke and swap opinions on the uncertainty of their future in Canada.
lii bufloo aen loo kishkishiw (buffalo wolf memory)
Using the sights and sounds of the land, Dianne Ouellette creates an ode to the North American grasslands and the prairie wolves that were hunted to extinction long ago.
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Le Roi n'est pas mon cousin (The King is Not My Cousin)
Fragmented conversations, abstract images and snippets of text tell the formidable story of filmmaker Aveturin's grandmother, whose experiences and identity provide a unique look at the struggle of the African diaspora.
What They Left Behind (他們所留下的記憶)
Through animated retellings of memories with her late grandfathers, Xingyu Gu wades through complex feelings of grief.
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Is it home that creates memory, or is it one's memory that creates home? In this assemblage of films, 10 directors experiment with notions of both. Some traverse the emotional geographies of memory—across the Black Atlantic, over the prairie grasslands and into the border of Ukraine—while others delve into memory as a home base, delightfully employing stop-motion animation and visual hybridity to (re)locate childhoods, relationships and death in lives both lived and lost.


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SFU School for the Contemporary Arts

'Nakwaxda'xw Elder Colleen Hemphill's memories of growing up on a float home near Alert Bay are wonderfully brought to life in this intricate and richly detailed stop-motion film. Narrated by Colleen herself, Tiny brings her joyful memories to life with aplomb. -lh

  • Year
    2022
  • Runtime
    17 minutes
  • Country
    COAST SALISH TERRITORY
  • Premiere
    Vancouver Premiere
  • Director
    Ritchie Hemphill, Ryan Haché
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