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Etlinisigu'niet (Bleed Down)
20155 min 5 secFilm: Documentary, Experimental
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.
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- 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