Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)

20155 min 5 secFilm: Documentary, Experimental

G

Direction: Jeff Barnaby

Production: Anita Lee

Jeff Barnaby’s Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) destroys any remaining shreds of the mythology of a fair and just Canada. His message is clear: we are still here. Attempts to “get rid of the Indian problem” have failed. The future is coming. A howl of pain rips across the land in Etlinisigu’niet as traditional life gives way to Indigenous peoples being starved to ensure compliance with government orders. Children forced from their families and penned into the horrors of residential school. Men, women and children examined like livestock in crowded tuberculosis clinics, where policies that could have prevented thousands of deaths were willfully suppressed, resulting in the highest death tolls from the disease ever reported anywhere in the world. And the land and water continue to be poisoned for industry and profit at the cost of Indigenous lives. Tanya Tagaq’s “Tulugak” carries the voice of the land through Barnaby’s poem of rage. Etlinisigu’niet (Bleed Down) is part of Souvenir, a four-film series addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB’s archives.

Subject categories


  • Indigenous Peoples in Canada (First Nations and Métis) > Cultural IdentityHistoryResidential Schools
  • Film and Video Arts > NFB FIlm Excerpts
  • Indigenous Studies > History/PoliticsIdentity/SocietyIssues and Contemporary Challenges
  • Colonizing Government Policy, Impacts & Outcomes > Colonization
  • Roles & Relationships > Indigenous Identity
  • Nature & Ecological Knowledge > Pollution & General Environmental Degradation
  • Education > Residential Schools History, Personal Accounts, Experience

Credits


director
Jeff Barnaby
producer
Anita Lee
executive producer
Anita Lee
editor
Jeff Barnaby
associate producer
Kate Vollum
song performer
Tanya Tagaq
song - writer
Tanya Tagaq
Jesse Zubot
Jean Martin
song - publisher
Third Side Music Inc.
Jesse Zubot
Jean Martin
production supervisor
Mark Wilson
technical lead
Marcus Matyas
assistant editor
Tiffany Beaudin
Zoya Rezaie
studio administrator
Stefanie Brantner
production coordinator
Jennifer Bertling
Andrew Martin-Smith
producer's assistant
Serena Lee
marketing manager
Melissa Wheeler
publicist
Jennifer Mair
head credits
Sébastien Aubin
title design
Sébastien Aubin
online editor
Laura Aqui
post picture facility
Fearless Films
stock footage
Fred Savard
Ragnhild Milewski
Josée Riopel
technical services
Antonia Gueorguieva
Jean Coulombe
Pascal Vincent
Aldo La Ricca
William Holley