Loretta Todd (données partielles)

Autre nom : Loretta Sarah Todd
Pays : Canada
Née : 1961

Films réalisés par Loretta Todd

Chronicles of Pride (1990)
The Learning Path (1991)
Hands of History (1994)
Changing Voices (1996) (autre titre : « Through the Lens: Changing Voices »)
Forgotten Warriors (1997) (autre titre : « Guerriers oubliés »)
Today Is a Good Day: Remembering Chief Dan George (1998) (autre titre : « Remembering Chief Dan George »)
Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On (2003)
Monkey Beach (2020)

Citations de Loretta Todd [en anglais]

« I don't think I was ever an earnest social-documentary filmmaker. That wasn't what drove me. I always tried to make my work interpretive. I'm very present in my films. So even if I was making a documentary, I always left a place to express something of myself. »
-- Loretta Todd (source)

« I guess I am sort of a classicist within my cultural context, within the cultural community of Aboriginal expression, where song and dance and story and creating were available to everybody to do, and there was no distinction between creating and everyday life. Still, there were certain people who were valued for their ability to have visions and to interpret dreams, who functioned as visionaries. Those people served a very central purpose in the community as being part of the continuum, being able to express certain principles by which we lived our life, such as our covenant with the Creator, like our relationship to other beings within the universe. I think what makes filmmakers great is the willingness to embrace that role of visionary and dreamer and to be able to interpret something back to the people. »
-- Loretta Todd (source)

« With the 1960s and 1970s Canadian documentary I had grown up with, there was a lot of stationary camera work, and as a Native person, I felt that the camera was peering in at us—that the films offered a space that allowed people to laugh at us. You have to remember that when you grow up Native, you grow up with constant inspection—checking your hair for lice, welfare workers looking in on you, the dentist yanking your teeth out. It feels like you are constantly peered at, interrogated, under surveillance. I was conscious of wanting to deconstruct that, and camera movements were a way to do that. »
-- Loretta Todd (source)

Citations sur Loretta Todd [en anglais]

« Loretta Todd's award-winning career has spanned an impressive range, from documentary videos for Native organizations to experimental art installations to feature documentaries for the National Film Board of Canada and feature film production. Her films address Aboriginal social memory, history, resistance, and cultural continuity in spite of colonization. »
-- Kristin L. Dowell (source)

« By allowing Indigenous subjects to take center stage and address the audience directly, [Loretta] Todd gives voice to the voiceless. Their stories demonstrate the impact of history on identity and link the past to the present and the future. »
-- Jennifer L. Gauthier (source)

« The racism [Loretta] Todd and her family experienced in Canada strengthened her resolve to always speak her mind and, as one of the few Aboriginal students in a formalist film school in Vancouver, to develop a solid commitment to her vision. She was intent on making films that were relevant to her life / the life of Aboriginal peoples, work that she could 'bring home' rather than mere art-for-art's-sake portraits of alienation. »
-- Carol Kalafatic (source)

« A storyteller, imagemaker, activist, and theorist, [Loretta] Todd has created a rich, reflective, and uncompromising body of work. From her early experimental videos and installations through her groundbreaking documentaries of the 1990s to her feature-film-in-progress, she has demonstrated a clear and conscientious voice. Her films, videos, and essays offer a corrective to damaging stereotypes of Native peoples and cultures, and through her innovative, fluid mix of the 'dramatic' and the 'factual,' her work points towards a less-rigid filmmaking aesthetic. »
-- Jason Silverman (source)

Pour lire les CITATIONS sur un film spécifique de Loretta Todd, veuillez voir : The Learning Path Kainayssini Imanistaisiwa: The People Go On

Notes sur Loretta Todd

Née à Edmonton.
Réalisatrice, productrice et scénariste crie et métisse.
A étudié le cinéma à l'Université Simon Fraser.

(sources)

Bibliographie sur Loretta Todd

Section 1 : Publications sur Loretta Todd

Chapitres de livres

BJORNSON, Michelle. « Making Documentary Films: Panel Discussion with Nicole Giguère, Brenda Longfellow, Loretta Todd, and Aerlyn Weissman » , dans Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, sous la direction de Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis et Valerie Raoul, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2003, pp. 208-216. [en anglais]
GAUTHIER, Jennifer L. « Dismantling the Master's House: The Feminist Fourth Cinema Documentaries of Alanis Obomsawin and Loretta Todd » , ["This article has been reprinted with the permission of Post Script: Essays in Film and the Humanities [...] 29.3 (Summer 2010)."] dans Native Americans on Film: Conversations, Teaching, and Theory, sous la direction de Eric L. Buffalohead et M. Elise Marubbio, Lexington, Kentucky, The University Press of Kentucky, 2013, pp. 89-115. [en anglais]
KALAFATIC, Carol. « Keepers of the Power: Story as Covenant in the Films of Loretta Todd, Shelley Niro, and Christine Welsh » , dans Gendering the Nation: Canadian Women's Cinema, sous la direction de Kay Armatage, Kass Banning, Brenda Longfellow et Janine Marchessault, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1999, pp. 109-119. [en anglais]
SILVERMAN, Jason. « Uncommon Visions: The Films of Loretta Todd » , dans North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, sous la direction de William Beard et Jerry White, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2002, pp. 376-389. [en anglais]

Brèves parties de livres

DOWELL, Kristin L. Sovereign Screens: Aboriginal Media on the Canadian West Coast, Lincoln, University of Nebraska Press, 2013. [en anglais] (pp. 134-136, 147-151)
EISNER, Ken. « Shadow and Light: First Nations Women Filmmakers » , dans Women Filmmakers: Refocusing, sous la direction de Jacqueline Levitin, Judith Plessis et Valerie Raoul, Vancouver, UBC Press, 2003. [en anglais] (pp. 394-396)

Articles de revues scientifiques

GAUTHIER, Jennifer L. « Dismantling the Master's House: The Feminist Fourth Cinema Documentaries of Alanis Obomsawin and Loretta Todd », Post Script, vol. 29, no. 3 (2010), pp. 27. [en anglais]

Sites Web

BIBLIOTHÈQUE ET ARCHIVES CANADA. « Femmes à l'honneur : leurs réalisations : les femmes dans le cinéma canadien : Loretta Todd », Bibliothèque et Archives Canada, http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/femmes/030001-1267-f.html.
LIBRARY AND ARCHIVES CANADA. « Celebrating Women's Achievements: Canadian Women in Film: Loretta Todd », Library and Archives Canada, http://www.collectionscanada.gc.ca/women/030001-1267-e.html. [en anglais]

Section 2 : Publications sur les films de Loretta Todd

The Learning Path (1991)

Chapitres de livres

BREDIN, Marian. « The Learning Path » , dans The Cinema of Canada, sous la direction de Jerry White, London, Wallflower, 2006, pp. 152-161. [en anglais]

Forgotten Warriors (1997) (autre titre : "Guerriers oubliés")

Brèves parties de livres

ADAH, Anthony. « On the Field of Battle: First Nations Women Documentary Filmmakers » , dans The Gendered Screen: Canadian Women Filmmakers, sous la direction de Brenda Austin-Smith et George Melnyk, Waterloo, Ont., Wilfrid Laurier University Press, 2010. [en anglais] (pp. 176-181)

Fonds et collections d'archives

Ces centres d'archives conservent des fonds ou collections liés à Loretta Todd ou à ses films :

Cinemathèque québécoise (Montréal, Québec)
Bibliothèque et Archives Canada (Ottawa, Ontario)