Dana Claxton

Dana Claxton is associated with: Her Sugar Is?

Movies Made By Dana Claxton (5)

Her Sugar Is? (2009)

A playful burlesque performance peels away layers of history to reveal a persuasive and thought-provoking dance that informs as much as it delights. ...

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Redwire Magazine and Native Hip Hop in Vancouver (1999)

A piece about Redwire Magazine (now Redwire Media) made for CTV's youth zine First Story, highlighting Indigenous hip hop artists in Vancouver. ...

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Yuxweluptun: Man of Masks (1998)

This short documentary serves as a portrait of Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, one of Canada's most important painters. We meet him at the Bisley Rifle Range in Surrey, England, where he's literally shooting the Indian Act in a performance piece called "An Indi ...

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The Red Paper (1996)

The Red Paper asserts a voice of power and interpretation recounting the devastating consequences of colonialism. The European male wears a straitjacket, repeatedly mumbling "I did not know, I did not know," in a familiar contemporary mantra that pleads se ...

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I Want to Know Why (1994)

The videomaker investigates the women in her family who have succumbed prematurely to external forces of racism and poverty. Using repetition and manipulation of western images of First Nations culture with an at first timid, then demanding voice-over, the ...

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Movies Starring Dana Claxton (1)

Blending Milk and Water: Sex In the New World (1996)

Blending Milk and Water: Sex in the New World is a cross-cultural, intergenerational, documentary about the diverse views of sex from twenty-two people. The recollections, fears and opinions of young people, professionals, healthworkers, educators, artists ...

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