Extraction

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Indigenous Filmmaker Shorts
Zinema 2 Sat, Apr 1, 2023 2:00 PM
Indigenous stories from near and far.
Film Info
Release Year:2022
Production Country:United States
Cast/Crew Info
Director:Moira Villiard

Description

“Extraction” is a short, frame-by-frame animation created by Moira Villiard, featuring poem and narration by award-winning Duckwater Shoshone tribal member Tanaya Winder, and a debut musical composition by Lucifer Josts. The poem takes viewers through a conversation between the poet and her knitting grandmother, who opens with the phrase “boarding school is where people go to die”, followed by a surreal immersion into the literal and metaphorical forms of extraction done to Indigenous people’s across Turtle Island. The visuals include the inside of a boarding school “classroom”, morphing into a scene where desks become graves. Native children’s hands work tirelessly at sewing, automated like the machines they’re expected to be; an oil rig extracts resources from a tired Mother Earth; relatives go missing in ways our Indigenous languages lack words to describe.