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Kevin Lee Burton

Kevin Lee Burton

Active since the early 2000s, the Winnipeg-based artist/filmmaker Kevin Lee Burton was raised in God’s Lake Narrows First Nation, an Asinīskāwiyiniwak (Rocky Cree) community. Much of his work challenges preconceptions of life in “Indian Country.” He won the Emerging Talent Award at imagineNATIVE with Meskanahk (My Path) in 2007, earning further honours at the same event with Nikamowin (Song). His NFB credits include Writing the Land (2007), featuring Musqueam elder Larry Grant, and the Webby Award-winning God’s Lake Narrows (2011), hailed as “an interactive project with no reservations”by The New York Times. “My greatest goal is to create a fluid connection between 'traditional' and technological ideas,” says Burton.

  • Writing the Land
    Writing the Land
    Kevin Lee Burton 2007 7 min
    In this short documentary, a Musqueam elder rediscovers his Native language and traditions in the city of Vancouver, near where the Musqueam people have lived for thousands of years.

    Writing the Land captures the ever-changing nature of a modern city - the glass and steel towers cut against the sky, grass, trees and a sudden flash of birds in flight and the enduring power of language to shape perception and create memory.

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