The Bear Inside a Whale

Q&A with Kenneth J. Harvey and Stan Hill Jr.  to follow

 

Freedom

Director: Scott Jones • Ontario • 5 minutes

Where does freedom live? If some assert their right to gather en masse but then block sidewalks and others can’t pass, whose freedom is that? Do our freedoms have a meeting place? Does it have to be a battleground? In this poetic animated short, a paraplegic man trapped in his Ottawa apartment during the Freedom Convoy protests reflects on the concept of freedom, querrying ableist underpinnings.

 

The Bear Inside a Whale

Director: Kenneth J Harvey • NL • 80 minutes

Stan Hill Jr. is a Haudenosaunee artist living in Miawpukek First Nation Reserve, Conne River, Newfoundland. In "The Bear Inside a Whale," he and his family discuss racism, identity, religion, creation and art, along with the cultural extinction of the Beothuk of Newfoundland. Throughout the film, we follow Stan carving a bear out of a whale vertebra. And we visit The Rooms (museum) in St. John's, Newfoundland, where Stan talks about viewing and reclaiming Indigenous artefacts.

 

Runtime: 1h25