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Caroline Monnet

Caroline Monnet

A visual artist and filmmaker of Algonquin ancestry, Monnet has exhibited around the globe. Ikwé, her striking film debut, was an experimental short on the intergenerational transmission of traditional knowledge. Additional film credits include the short drama Roberta and the documentary Tshiuetin.Her exhilarating short film Mobilize reframes archival images from the NFB collection to thrilling effect. “I want to speak about a people moving forward, a people who are mobilizing themselves,” she said of the film in a 2015 interview. “We are contemporary, culturally rooted and constantly on the move.”

  • Mobilize
    Mobilize
    Caroline Monnet 2015 3 min
    This short film, crafted entirely out of NFB archival footage by First Nations filmmaker Caroline Monnet, takes us on an exhilarating journey from the Far North to the urban south, capturing the perpetual negotiation between the traditional and the modern by a people moving ever forward.

    Part of the Souvenir series, it's one of four films by First Nations filmmakers that address Indigenous identity and representation, reframing Canadian history through a contemporary lens.
  • 360 Degrees
    360 Degrees
    Caroline Monnet 2008 18 min
    This short film introduces us to Sébastien Aubin, a French-speaking member of Manitoba's Opaskwayak Cree Nation. He works as a graphic artist for a living, but he's embarked on a personal spiritual and identity quest on the side. Attempting to transcend the material world, he's apprenticing in traditional Indigenous medicine with healer Mark Thompson. The relationship between the two figures marks the contrast between generations; between modernity and tradition. It makes the 360-degree turn from the values of the past to those of today strikingly apparent.

    This documentary was made as part of the Tremplin program, with the collaboration of Radio-Canada.

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