[First paragraph] Reflected in one's ancestry is the weight of history - histories that are as much about the legacies of family as they are about the self. By tracing a line back, whether straight or selective, ancestries offer a unique lens through which to view and, in turn, portray the self. Artists have long explored their ancestral backgrounds, homelands, and stories as inspiration for thei…
An animator records the shaggy dog stories of his Indigenous brother in a loopy, hallucinatory animation The call for better self-representation for minorities in cinema has been loud and long over the last decade, and if it means more left-field work like this loopy, brain-fried but thoroughly affable animation about the lives of a Canadian Cree Indigenous family, then keep it coming. Roughly de…
