Divided by Zero

Réalisé par Danis Goulet

Canada, 2006 (fiction, 16 minutes, couleurs, anglais)

Description du film [en anglais] :
« Ashley, a young Aboriginal crusader of all causes is stopped in her activist tracks after an awkward conversation with her boyfriend's well-meaning mother. In a determined attempt to re-assert her 'cultural authenticity,' Ashley builds a tipi in her suburban bedroom using internet instructions. »
-- V tape (source)

Générique (partiel) :
Scénario :	Danis Goulet
Produit par :	Danis Goulet, Sonia Hosko, Gisele Gordon, Daniel Iron
Interprètes principaux :	Tinsel Korey, Pamela Matthews, Taysha Fuller, Kit Weyman, Catherine Hayos
Images :	Colin Akoon
Montage images :	Ellen Fine
Musique :	Matt Skal

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Citation sur Divided by Zero [en anglais]

« Questions over her Native identity provokes Ashley's crisis; or perhaps more accurately, her concern over not being Native enough. Ashley lives with her mother and sister in a culturally mixed, middle class Canadian neighborhood. Ashley's earnest activist boyfriend and his affectedly liberal mother are white. Broadly speaking, Ashley's identity crisis is typical of adolescence, something the film [Divided by Zero] presents with humor and dignity. If it is a goal of this work to question some of the assumptions about Native identity, it is an elegant choice to set it in the context of adolescence, itself a time of 'becoming' and of searching for identity. »
-- Elizabeth Claire Kalbfleisch (source)

Bibliographie sur Divided by Zero

Brèves parties de thèses

KALBFLEISCH, Elizabeth Claire. « The Home and the Unhomely: Women, House, and Home in Contemporary Native Art » , dans Bordering on Feminism: Home and Transnational Sites in Recent Visual Culture and Native Women's Art, 2009. Thèse de doctorat, University of Rochester. (pp. 195-199) [en anglais]

Sites Web sur Divided by Zero

« IMDb: Divided by Zero », Internet Movie Database, Inc, https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0816480/reference. [en anglais]