Mino-bimaadiziwin (The Good Life)

Mino-bimaadiziwin (The Good Life) came out of the Artist for Film residency at Artscape Gibraltar Point. I was excited about First Story’s walking tour with Elder Carolyn King. I was only able to participate with the aid of a wheelchair and allow others to push me around, it was my first time in a wheelchair. I documented this walk from that perspective with this manual timelapse on Super 8. Reconciling myself as a mixed-race indigenous Colombian settler “walking the red road” while being a person who lives with physical disabilities. Learning to live mino-bimaadiziwin as a settler to Turtle Island and Tkaronto. – Jaene Castrillon Rotterdam International Film Festival, DINAMO: Footprints, 2019

Film Maker
Castrillon, Jaene
Year
2016
Country
Canada
Length
5
Language
Ojibwe
Category
(De)colonization, Activism + Protest, art & artists, body, Canada, Community, Culture, Disability, Ecology, Feminism, Gender, Genocide, history, Identity, Indigenous, Landscape, LGBTQ, Mental Health, Politics + Policy, Portraits, Race + Ethnicity, Resistance, Society, Work about Women, Work by Women
Genre
documentary, hand-processed, queer, short

Stills From Video

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