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The Lodge – Film by ICCT member Terril Calder
October 23, 2014 @ 5:15 pm - 6:45 pm
http://imaginenative.org/home/node/3458
In her feature-length debut, acclaimed filmmaker and animator Terril Calder (Metis) presents a surreal fairytale recalling equal parts Goldilocks and the Three Bears and the traditional Anishnaabe legend of the Dandelion. In The Lodge, we follow Pearl Bailey, a British war bride who has come to live in the Canadian wilderness with her Métis husband. Pearl self-righteously positions herself as superior to the “animals” she now finds herself surrounded by – a “Queen” in a “savage land.” The Manitous, on the other hand, have a plan of their own and her fate falls into their hands. Rendered in stunning stop-motion animation, The Lodgeinterrogates colonial concepts of savagery, critiques the de-humanizing of Indigenous peoples and explores the powerful medicine of our animal relations.
Directed by: Terril Calder