Bihttoš (Rebel) is a Canadian short documentary film, directed by Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers and released in 2014. Blending live action and animation, the film depicts the relationship between her Sami father, Bjarne Store-Jakobsen, and her Blackfoot mother, Esther Tailfeathers, focusing in particular on the way her father's childhood experiences in Norway's residential school system contributed to their breakup.
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Directed by | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers |
Written by | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers |
Produced by | Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers |
Cinematography | Oliver Millar |
Edited by | Bridget Durnford |
Music by | Chad Neufeld Ánde Somby Jordan Wilson |
Production company | Violator Films |
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Running time | 14 minutes |
Country | Canada |
Language | English |
The film premiered at the in 2014, and was named to the Toronto International Film Festival's Canada's Top Ten. It was shortlisted for the Canadian Screen Award for Best Short Documentary at the 4th Canadian Screen Awards.
References
- "2014 imagineNATIVE Catalogue". October 22, 2014.
- "Vancouver filmmaker Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers' emotional memoir screens at the Reel 2 Real Film Fest". The Georgia Straight, April 6, 2016.
- Storfjell, Troy (2019). "ELSEWHERES OF HEALING: TRANS-INDIGENOUS SPACES IN ELLE-MÁIJÁAPINISKIM TAILFEATHERS' BIHTTOŠ". In Stenport, Anna Westerståhl; Lunde, Arne Olav (eds.). Nordic film cultures and cinemas of elsewhere. Traditions in world cinema. Edinburgh, Scotland: Edinburgh University Press. ISBN . OCLC 1085204238.
- Bellrichard, Chantelle (January 25, 2015). "5 under 30 to watch in 2015". CBC News. Retrieved September 17, 2016.
- . ET Canada, January 19, 2016.
Further reading
- MacKenzie, Scott and Anna Westerståhl Stenport. 2016. “Contemporary experimental feminist Sámi documentary: the first person politics of Liselotte Wajstedt and Elle-Máijá Tailfeathers.” Journal of Scandinavian Cinema 6 (2): 169–82
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