Kent Monkman (2)
Kent Monkman
An artist of Cree ancestry who also identifies as two-spirit and queer, Kent Monkman has earned worldwide acclaim for his subversive pastiche of colonial-era artwork. Whether through painting, performance or film, he reframes colonial narratives in a provocative and often eroticized light, with work that frequently features his artistic alter-ego, the drag-persona Miss Chief Eagle Testickle. “Monkman makes an elegant, powerful point about land, culture, ownership and history at perhaps the most extraordinary moment for such things in this country,” says the Toronto Star. With Sisters & Brothers, made for the NFB’s Souvenir series, he uses archival imagery to draw parallels between the devastating impact of residential schooling and the annihilation of the continent’s bison herds.
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Soeurs et frèresKent Monkman 2015 3 minRéalisé dans le cadre de la série Souvenir, ce court métrage de Kent Monkman utilise des archives de l’ONF pour établir des parallèles entre l’anéantissement du bison et les ravages provoqués par le système des pensionnats indiens. Une critique impitoyable de la période coloniale du Canada et de la douleur et de la perte infligées aux peuples autochtones. -
Sisters & BrothersKent Monkman 2015 3 minIn a pounding critique of Canada's colonial history, this short film draws parallels between the annihilation of the bison in the 1890s and the devastation inflicted on the Indigenous population by the residential school system. This film is part of Souvenir, a series of four films addressing Indigenous identity and representation by reworking material in the NFB's archives.
