Kuije Kanan: Managalase Tattooing
The colonial government in 20th century Papua New Guinea required its indigenous communities to shift from subsistence food-growing and barter-and-trade to a cash-based market economy. This economic policy upset long-standing social and cultural practices of the Managalase people of Oro Province. This included pressure to stop indigenous adolescent male body tattooing, which had served as […]
Union and University
A Stone’s Throw على مرمى حجر
Amine, a Palestinian elder, is exiled twice, from land and labor, from Haifa to Beirut to a Gulf offshore oil platform. “A Stone’s Throw” trespasses borders to reveal an emotional and material proximity between the extraction of oil and labour in the region and the Zionist colonization of Palestine. The film rehearses a history of […]
Determinations (trailer)
A post-punk gonzo doco from the 1980s restored for the digital realm. Vancouver in the 1980s. The Squamish Five. Now in a time of ever increasing environmental suicidal somnambulism & social, political dementia. #documentary #film #anarchism #CDNpolitics #Canada #BC #Vancouver #environmental #deterence The Reagan era (1981 – 1989) in the USA marked a time of […]