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Trapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.
+ MoreTrapped in museum archives, Ancestors bend time and space to find their way home. History, spirituality, and the law collide as tribal repatriation specialists fight to return and rebury Indigenous human remains, offering a revealing look at the still-pervasive worldviews that justified collecting them in the first place.
Aanikoobijigan [ancestor/great-grandparent/great-grandchild] documents the emotional and vital work of MACPRA (Michigan Anishinaabek Cultural Preservation and Repatriation Alliance). This alliance, made up of repatriation specialists representing all Michigan tribes, fights to bring their Ancestors and funerary objects home from settler colonial institutions like museums, libraries, and archives.
Adam and Zack Khalil’s monumental and formally daring film follows the pressing struggle to rebury Indigenous human remains that have been held in sterile storage, laying bare the history of Indigenous collections and the battle to recognize and enforce the laws intended to facilitate their repatriation to the communities they were originally stolen from. Using an essayistic approach alongside vérité portraits, the film celebrates the courageous individuals who carry out this hard and emotionally draining labor of return. — AP
Available in person. Also available online for the public (January 29–February 1) and credentialed press and industry (January 28–February 1).
The Yarrow Theatre
Park City
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Megaplex Redstone - 3
Park City
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Holiday Village Cinemas - 3
Park City
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Broadway Centre Cinemas - 6
Salt Lake City
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Adam Khalil
Zack Khalil
Steve Holmgren
Adam Khalil
Zack Khalil
Grace Remington
Jacque Clark
Franny Alfano
Adam Khalil
Zack Khalil
Adam Khalil
Zack Khalil
Jacque Clark
Shaandiin Tome
Sky Hopinka
Bayley Sweitzer
Samuli Haavisto
Jacque Clark
Zack Khalil
Leila Bordreuil
Lucky Dragons
Ernst Karel
Eli Cohn
Alicia Gervais
Elizabeth Young
Jim Fletcher
Ozhitoon Films + Steady Orbits
Steve Holmgren
ozhitoonfilms@gmail.com
9174064669
Adam Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist whose practice attempts to subvert traditional forms of image-making through humor, relation, and transgression. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order and co-founder of COUSINS Collective. His works have been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art and Tate Modern, among other institutions.
Zack Khalil (Ojibway) is a filmmaker and artist whose work centers Indigenous narratives in the present (and looks toward the future) through the use of innovative nonfiction forms. Khalil is a core contributor to New Red Order (a public secret society) and works professionally as a video editor.
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