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Canadian Artist Spotlight: Dana C. Inkster

Royal Ontario Museum
Sat May 23 3:15pm


	Tickets are STILL AVAILABLE for this screening
	This program has 5 FILMS.

Canadian Artist Spotlight: Dana C. Inkster

Dana C. Inkster is an influential Canadian documentary filmmaker and artist who incorporates an eclectic mélange of styles into her work, which engages with issues of identity politics, race, class, sexuality and social justice-and finds its audience in many worlds, from major film festivals to indie media art events. Her first film, Welcome to Africville (1999), won awards and international critical acclaim for its skillful portrayal of the personal and cultural dislocations born out of the destruction of Africville, a small Halifax community. She has since directed films that draw on documentary and narrative traditions, creating a spellbinding body of work. This program includes a short by Charles Lofton selected by Dana C. Inkster, and a brand new video she crafted specifically for this event.

O Happy Day

In O Happy Day, Lofton juxtaposes images of black gay men from the 1960s and 1970s with images of Black Panther Party demonstrations as a way of intentionally revising history. The soundtrack is punctuated by a quote from Black Panther leader Huey Newton: 'There's nothing to say that a homosexual cannot also be a revolutionary. Quite on the contrary, maybe a homosexual could be the most revolutionary...' Language: English

The Art of Autobiography: Redux I

The Art of Autobiography: Redux I is a riveting experiment with narrative and a statement on lesbian ethnic identity, made through the use of an extreme close-up on a set of eyes. Language: English

24 Days In Brooks

Over the past decade the tiny town of Brooks, Alberta has been transformed from a socially conservative and primarily Caucasian town into one of the most diverse places in Canada. Immigrants and refugees have flocked here to work at Lakeside Packers-one of the world's largest slaughterhouses. As 24 Days In Brooks shows, people from widely different backgrounds can work together for respect, dignity, and change-even though getting there is not easy.

Please join us on Friday, May 22 for Dana C. Inkster's historical selection, Isaac Julien's Young Soul Rebels. Language: English

Dana Inkster's Shades of Brown: An Ode to Madame Morrison

'It hasn't been film, or video, or objects of beauty...above all else, my practice has been inspired by how my world was transformed the moment I finished reading Toni Morrison's Jazz. Before those last two pages, there was chaos. After, there was calm.' In addition to Jazz, Dana C. Inkster cites Derek Jarman's Blue as a key influential work. An exclusive, one-time-only screening for Inside Out's Canadian Spotlight! Language: English

Welcome to Africville

The year 1999 marked the 30th anniversary of the destruction of the Halifax community known as Africville. Welcome to Africville, the first fiction film to have been set in this historical site, gives insight into the hearts and minds of four residents on the eve of their community's destruction. MeShell Nd'geocello composed the soulful original score. Language: English