[Indigsol] RE: movie night concern...

[Matt Kristjansson]

hey everyone,
i think the idea was to show it in a satirical light, in terms of showing how indigenous people are often (mis)represented in popular film,art etc, and it does a pretty good job of that. that said, it doesnt play that much into exposing current ish that indigenous folks in canada are dealing with, and it might well be taken the wrong way. it would be pertinent to discuss this,  i was half asleep for most of the meeting but yeah, i think the only way it c ould be shown is with an eye to discussing representations of indigenous people in film, art etc and how time and tiem again that has been misconstrued into this mononarrative that speaks nothing as to who different indigenous groups actually are. is talking bout that in the context of solidarity work a good idea? i think so, but the question is open as to whether showing and discussing this film woudl do anthing towards that end. 
solidarity,
matt
> Date: Tue, 1 Apr 2008 15:23:28 -0800
> Subject: movie night concern...
> From: bones at mutualaid.org
> To: aschleihauf at gmail.com
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> 
> 
> hey folks,
> i hope this isnt really shitty process - maybe we should have chatted
> about it more at the meeting - but i just want to flag a couple things
> about the movie.
> 
> especially since we didnt do proper pre-screening for the last movie night
> and that was kinda uncomfortable, i think we should have a better handle
> on what we are showing and why.
> 
> i just watched part of dead man and, well, i dont really know why we would
> screen that movie?!? youtube has a whole bunch of clips and stuff.  try
> this for starters:
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ktrQLk_ACuI&NR=1
> 
> thoughts?
> 
> 
> 

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