The act of writing collapses the past and the present into the dissonant experience of witnessing the colonization of the body.
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Shaping Our Future
Inmates in a Victoria BC jail are working together on a once in a lifetime project. A chance to take their minds off of their past deeds and focus on the positive. Carving a 40 ft totem is no small undertaking but with guidance from Coast Salish carver Tom LaFortune they are about to take on this epic undertaking.
Farming the Revolution
Amidst COVID lockdowns, India’s farmers rise up on an unprecedented scale against unjust new laws. Over half a million protesters—men and women from all generations, religions, classes and castes—gather and reinvent co-existence while winning a rare victory over the state.
Black Cotton
A slave sold to a cotton factory by his own brother, with the help of the dead, returned for revenge with silent rage.
Letter To My Tribe
Letter to My Tribe started with a question: Why don’t more Jews and Israelis speak out about Palestine? Over many years my mother and I have had numerous arguments. These form the backbone of this video essay in which journalists, activists and a rabbi are interviewed, and in which documentation of actions on the ground are woven with more personal family histories and journeys to Iraq and to Poland. The work addresses historic and contemporary moments of urgency.
Ukko
Ten-year-old girl Olei lives with her grandparents and her only friend – Kaunikki the cow in a withering Karelian village on the shores of the White Sea. Suddenly, the girl's grandfather passes away. While her grandmother, gripped by the bitterness of loss, conducts funeral rituals, Olei seeks solace in Kaunikki’s company. But on the funeral eve Kaunikki disappears, and the only person, who could help find her, is dead.