Caribou in the Archive
2019 | 8 minutes | Canada
Director: Jennifer Dysart
Language: English
At the heart of this personal found footage film are the enigmatic events that led to saving an important piece of family history from being lost forever. Rustic VHS home video of a Cree woman hunting caribou in the 1990s is combined with NFB films of northern Manitoba from the 1940s-70s, commenting on what becomes part of official history and archives, and what does not.
About the pairing:
Caribou in the Archive precedes Beans, a film about the Oka Crisis, as an important reminder that “history” and media representation, generally accepted as objective fact, is a select version of events often compiled by omission and bias.
- Keltie Duncan