EMBARGO COLLECTIVE

Saturday, Oct 17 2009, 5:00PM
Al Green Theatre
In March 2008, imagineNATIVE formed the Embargo Collective, an international group of seven Indigenous artists who have been collaborating and challenging one another to create seven new films.


Each of the artists chosen has an impressive body of work, demonstrating exceptional talent and vision. Each has a different focus in media arts: documentary, fictional narrative and experimental. And each represent a diversity of Indigenous nations. Their artistic achievements aside, these artists have been chosen for their enthusiasm for collaboration and their willingness to be open to challenge. They represent a younger generation of contemporary media artists who are at the forefront of the changing global landscape of Indigenous cinema and media arts.

Inspired by filmmaker Lars Von Trier’s documentary The Five Obstructions—in which Von Trier dared his mentor to remake his own 1967 film five times with a different set of rules imposed each time—imagineNATIVE has been facilitating the Embargo Collective, encouraging these artists to push their creative boundaries by asking them to construct a set of limitations for one another.

While the initial goal was to demonstrate how essential the collaborative process is to film, a far more profound and intimate result materialized over 20 months: As the filmmakers shared their experiences, inspired one another and created work together, a collective spirit was born. What you are about to see are the fruits of that collaboration, a true testament to what film can be when artists come together to create. We hope you enjoy!

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