Citation :
« One aspect of [Alanis] Obomsawin's cinema that quickly distinguishes it from her contemporaries' is its oddly pared-down form. Her work displays little in the way of stylistic flourish or excess, and usually features explanatory voice-overs that might remind some of dull, pedagogical (NFB?) documentaries of the 1950s. However, this apparently simple aesthetic is peppered with a pronounced subjectivity. Furthermore, Obomsawin's work displays a tendency towards lyricism and massive narrative digressions, both techniques that shatter conventions of documentary realism. »
-- Jerry White

Source :
WHITE, Jerry. « Alanis Obomsawin, Documentary Form and the Canadian Nation(s) » , ["Originally appeared in CineAction! 49 (1999)."] dans North of Everything: English-Canadian Cinema Since 1980, sous la direction de William Beard et Jerry White, Edmonton, University of Alberta Press, 2002. [en anglais] (p. 366)