Unspoken Territory
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Western Front and Moving Images Distribution launched Marusya Bociurkiw’s feature-length film Unspoken Territory (2001).
Unspoken Territory retells Canadian history told through the stories of First Nations, immigrant, and Quebecois women.
It is about human rights abuses in our own backyard, told in fragments with poetic interludes, spoken over landscapes shot from moving cars and trains. It is an honest recounting of history, via ancestral voices and family conversations.
Combining documentary, dramatic re-enactment, and animation, the film uses a lyrical approach in its questioning of official Canadian history and the seamless narratives of archived information.
A reception followed the screening.
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Western Front is a non-profit artist-run centre in Vancouver.
We acknowledge the xʷməθkʷəy̓əm (Musqueam), Skwxwú7mesh (Squamish), and səl̓ílwətaʔɬ (Tsleil-Waututh) Nations as traditional owners of the land upon which Western Front stands.