Ashcroft, Arlea
Métis, Métis Not
Type:
Portrait, Women (filmmakers), Aboriginal
Date: 2010
Length: 10:55
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Languages: no dialogue
Synopsis
Métis, Métis Not is a video documentation of the artist’s lack of relationship with her cultural background. It explores her own myths, stereotypes, and clichés from reenacting the discovery of her native heritage to embracing her Métis-ness late in life, transforming into a Gift Shop Native Doll. The piece deals with feelings of guilt, lack of entitlement, and own naiveté at her personal cultural crossroads and what it means to be Métis.
Biography
Arlea Ashcroft is a self-taught multi-disciplinary artist involved in the media, performing, and visual arts. She has received local, national and international exposure through publication, broadcast and public presentation. Whether as guitarist for the punk band SHRIMP, challenging the usual dynamic of western art through portraiture, or carefully exposing an image, Ashcroft’s work is deliberately off-putting and antagonistic.
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