THINKING ETHNOGRAPHIC CINEMA THROUGH THE LENS OF INDIGENOUS FILMMAKING

ILNU AITUN AU FÉMININ

By : Amélie Courtois, Presented in collaboration with Wapikoni Mobile.

2019 | 6 min | VOF

Country of origin of director : Canada
Country of production: Canada
Country of recording: Canada

SYNOPSIS :

This short film accompanies the women of Puakuteu (the Women’s Committee of Mashteuiatsh) in search of ancestral learnings. They discover that it is necessary to take the time to learn and to look at what Mother Earth offers us in order to fuel the sacred fire within them.

BIOGRAPHY :

Amélie Courtois is an Innu-Atikamekw multidisciplinary artist from the Mashteuiatsh community. She is mainly inspired by ancestral know-how and by the observation of nature.