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I Want to Know Why

Directed by Dana Claxton
Canada, 1994 (video art, 6 minutes, colour, English)
I Want to Know Why
Image: © V tape

Film Description:
"The videomaker investigates the women in her family who have succumbed prematurely to external forces of racism and poverty. Using repetition and manipulation of western images of First Nations culture with an at first timid, then demanding voice over, the video moves through sorrow and indignation with the processes of cultural genocide."
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